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[pragmatic_dem]

151. Thanks for the reply, I talk about principals

you talk about personal issues.

The fact is, Democratic Party conservatives have been beating down non-conservative voices on some of the seminal issues of our generation. These are soul sucking compromises of convenience that could have come straight from the Reagan White House.

The broad center you speak of isn't static - it has moved right at a rapid pace. It's like global warming - you can deny it, but the science knows that is a lie. So what do you do? Burn more coal since the planet is dying anyway? Ignore it and it will go away?

Let's examine a few of my "personal" issues.

- Off shore drilling

- Being against Spying before being for it, before being against some of it, or maybe Congress should decide

- Eric Holder's refusal to prosecute Wall Street crime, or literally anyone who matters.

- Spying on the Press

- Patriot Act

- Amnesty for torture

- An SEC completely unreformed

- Surge in Afghanistan at 1/2 a trillion dollars that killed as many people in 2 years than Bush did in his two terms. For what?

- Pelosi running around making sure everyone votes to support spying.

- Anre Duncan and privatization and a fucking mess called common core

- No effective insurance or cost reform for a majority of people (those not eligible for ACA because they don't need it if they have some kids and make $65K a year, you know, we're rich, I guess).

- Trans-pacific partnership program.

- Offshoring and H1B abuses.

- Income disparity, poverty, median wage, education costs - no change in 40 year trend.

These are massive, generation spanning policies and outcomes that cannot be undone. Each and every one has unleashed a moral hazard.

As far as Ted Cruz, he only serves the conservatives in both parties. No matter what Democratic Leadership does, no matter the duplicity, nor the betrayal, it's always going to be the lesser of evils.

Fuck that.

This isn't compromise, it is surrender - a detached, soulless defeat where tangible progress is replaced by a rhetorical illusion and "branding". It's sound bites and blue ink masquerading as principals.

You wasted many words to tell us all that liberals should stay in the closet because we embarrass you in front of your corporate friends.