To everyone who has stated we need to flush the party of 3rd way

[OrwellwasRight]

42. No, candidates reflect the positions their handlers, advisors, and consultants tell them to take.

You're dreaming if you think most candidates (except former staffers) come to politics with fully formed positions on every issue. On many, they get told what to think and say in order "not to piss off the NRA" or to "maximize fundraising opportunities" or "have a chance to reach the [mythical] centrist voters" or what have you. And it's the DCCC or DSCC or consultants from those ranks who have been spouting the same failing "conventional wisdom" for years, who give the same failing conventional shitty advice that has kept us from controlling Congress for the vast majority of the time since Clinton invented triangulation in 1992.

Think about it: the rise of the DLC coincides almost exactly with the end of a half century of Democratic domination of Congress.