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In reply to the discussion: We're well on our way to a republican president in 2016 [View all]MaggieD
(7,393 posts)This issue has nothing to do with what happened in a red state. We had poor turn out everywhere. And it's ridiclous not to see that. IMO, the purity fools are terrible for democrats in more ways than I can say here without having a post hidden.
I saw firsthand how they prevented an LGBT anti discrimination bill from passing in WA state. Instead of finding people electable that agreed with them to run and support them they bashed every Democrat they spoke about. When you'd ask liberal electeds why they didn't vote in favor they would flat out tell you it was because of extremists.
And then we pushed THE EXTREMISTS out of the political process and we passed it the next year. Then we passed DPP, then we passed marriage. After 15 years of extremists fucking it up for the rest of us. The extemist, purity left is one of many reasons republicans run 3/4s of government.