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In reply to the discussion: I'm disgusted by Democratic disloyalty doing the Koch Brother's job for them [View all]brush
(61,033 posts)You talked about them but don't mention any names.
And the Democratic brand, as you put it, encompasses a "range" unfortunately that range goes from progressive to blue dog. It is not and never has been strictly progressive but that progressive element drags it, "kicking and screaming at times", from going completely to the opposite dark side of repugness.
So instead of refusing to participate in the Hopson's choice of dems vs repugs, stay on board and continue to exert the progressive, and direly needed, influence from us on the progressive end of the Democratic brand.
If you don't participate and vote, you may as well just wrap 2016 up in a bow and hand it to one of the riders in the repug clown car of presidential candidates.
We've already seen what happens when non-Hopson choicers sit out the vote the 2014 mid-term repug take-over of Congress.
Are you happy with that?