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In reply to the discussion: the consistent effort by conservative, corporate dems to try and tarnish progressive [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Let me ask you something, are you going to be going out to ask Liberals to vote for Democrats? Will you be telling them, not that you have to, how much the Party Leadership despises them and their Progressive ideas? I hope so, because it's always better to be honest with people.
Never mind, as each year passes, the Progressive Wing of the party has had to conclude that the party they have belonged to all their lives, is not the party it once was, it has swung so far to the right, that it is barely recognizable to Democrats.
The current iteration of the Dem Party does not want Progressives in the party. The ONLY time they want them and their money is at election time. The minute the election is over, they tell them to get lost. For a while it worked, but many have now received that message loud and clear.
So progressives have two choices, either stay and refuse to vote for Corporate 'dems', put all the effort they used to put into electing anyone with a 'd' after their names, into ONLY progressive Dems, or become an Independent, which many have already.
I'm for staying but never, ever helping any Third Way Conservative simply because they slapped a 'd' after their name, to get elected. As someone once said, 'if the people wanted to elect Republicans, they would elect Republicans, not Republican Lite.