Our party leaders need to let go of the "they have nowhere else to go" attitude towards the base.

[cui bono]

104. No, the party has changed, the "base" is still liberal. The party, as evidenced by so many posts on

DU alone, has become centrist. The "base" is still interested in the principles that the party was founded upon. Unions, workers rights, civil liberties, regulation of big business, not allowing too big to fail, etc... Unfortunately, the party has taken in so many moderates, likely because the R's got too extreme and also because of the push of the DLC/Third Way, that it is now basically moderate Republican, just as Obama has describe himself.

The "base" is left with no one to vote for that truly represents their interests any more. Look at all your posts supporting corporations, Wall Street and outsourcing of jobs on one of the TPP threads. It's outrageous to have a Democrat supporting all of that. Used to be unheard of. But the Dem Party has been infiltrated by centrists, the corporations control the media so we have only center and right media, so everyone assumes the center is the left. But it's not. Not by a long shot.

Where is anyone "playing the victim"? You know that democracy works when people speak up. That's the only way it works. So why can't we do so without people like you telling us we don't belong? We belong a hell of a lot more than you do because we support workers and the people. You support corporations, Wall Street and outsourcing of jobs. You are a conservative when you support those things and people like you have severely damaged the Democratic Party. You don't even understand that unions built up the middle class, or are you purposely being coy and pretending that outsourcing did that?

So don't go telling liberals that "You don't get it. They do what the base wants. You're just not part of it." You don't have a clue and you have zero appreciation for who got you what rights you still have left. Rights that your centrist Dem Party is giving up without a fight anymore. Go ahead, keep pissing on the left and see what happens. All you're going to do is get a Tea Party president and it's going to be your fault, not the left's.