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

[branford]

100. The Democrats are still generally the "leftmost" choice.

If your positions actually held sway with far more voters, the political parties that appear to accurately reflect your positions would either have more candidates or the Democratic party itself would move farther to the left to attract voters like yourself.

However, your complaint is an implicit admission of my prior point, that the far, far left positions many here espouse have never really been part of the Democrat Party platform, and those hated and conservative and moderate Democrats are actually much more representative of the Democratic Party, and actually capable of winning elections, than those here who constantly complain.

That's why I find it particularly frustrating and amusing that Bernie Sanders is always used as the example of some perfect Democrat and presidential candidate. Although he unsurprisingly caucuses with the Democrats, he is a self-proclaimed socialist from Vermont, and independent, and not actually a member of the Democratic Party.