Democrats Who Move Right Lose Elections – There Is No “Center”

[The Wizard]

111. Appealing to people who will never vote for you

is a guaranteed losing strategy.
In 2009 Obama moved to the right to appeal to the Republicans as being the President of all the people. He gave up the public option in the Health Care bill, and as a result alienated the base of the Democratic Party, thus causing many of the base to abandon the 2010 midterm election. The result was the radical fringe (Teahaddist) element to seize control of the Republican Party and block all of the President's legislative initiatives. Their goal was/is to destroy his presidency.
These are neither normal nor patriotic Americans. They are anarchists and Nihilists bent on restoring the Gilded Age, or worse slavery.
The fringe element that has seized power in the Republican Party sees normal Americans as the enemy and will lie cheat and steal to gain total control of the government so as to "drown it in a bathtub."
When right wing god Ronald Reagan declared government to be the problem he set in motion a movement with the ultimate goal of undermining all semblance of a civil society.
We've recently witnessed the lawless militia movement show up in Nevada, encouraged by Fox News, for the purpose of overthrowing the United States government by force.
I repeat, these are neither normal nor patriotic Americans, and if Democrats continue moving to the right to appeal to voters who will never vote for them, we will have neither a government nor a country that is inhabitable by a civilized society.
If Democrats want to be successful they must stand for the principles upon which the Party has stood by since FDR.