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

[branford]

105. No candidate is perfect, and few agree with all of a party's platform.

You've made it clear you're a socialist. However, the Democratic Party is not socialist, it is comfortably and reliably capitalist, as are the vast majority of members of the party. The only prominent socialist in Congress, Bernie Sanders, is not a member of the Democratic party.

When you and others complaint that the Democrats are acting too capitalistic and running such candidates, you're complaining that they are acting in accordance with the party's platform and beliefs. The purported moderate and conservative Democrats are generally far more reflective of these platform beliefs than yourself and other individuals on the very far left of the political spectrum. In fact, there are political parties in America that actually reflect your beliefs, such as the Socialists and Greens.

After 2012 and recent elections, the Democratic Party has now been mostly purged of the hated moderates and conservatives in elected positions, both federally and within state legislatures and governorships. Now that our Democratic elected representative are more ideologically pure and acceptable to many on DU, but nevertheless distinctly in the minority, are we in a better position to advance any part of a more progressive agenda?

The perfect is not the enemy of the good, and we need the more moderate and conservative Democrats from parts of the country where "pure" liberals are virtually unelectable, if we are to pass any liberal legislation.