The Liberal Left is the Base of the Party

[Raksha]

101. Did it EVER occur to you that it just might work the other way?

Re "Of course if you wish the Democratic Party to maintain the power and punch it currently has and to continue to move our nation down a more liberal and progressive path, you have to realize that you may have to accept that some in our party will have more moderate or more conservative views than you do."

For years, every single fucking election cycle, I've been hearing that--and acting on it too. Finally in 2012 I decided I was through voting for the proverbial lesser of two evils. As I've said several times already, I voted for Jill Stein for president, Democratic Party for everything else.

But for years before that, I allowed myself to be brainwashed by the self-proclaimed "moderates" and "realists" in the Democratic Party that I had to vote for the candidate who was allegedly the "electable" one, the candidate who would appeal to the centrists and swing voters. And the whole time, the party and the country swung inexorably to the right, until finally it was to the right of most of the electorate and under the near-total control of the corporatists, the banksters and the globalists--in other words, the kleptocracy.

ALWAYS the advocates for the squishy center and the conventional wisdom used the same canned argument you just did: "You may have to accept that some in our party will have more moderate or more conservative views than you do."

WHY is that argument never turned around? YOU just might have to accept that some in our party (many, in fact) are to your LEFT, and have more liberal and even socialist views. Would you consider supporting a candidate who is more liberal than you are? Have you ever even been asked to?

Sounds strange, doesn't it?