After 25 Years of Losing to Wall Street, Left-Wing Democrats Are Winning - TheNation

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49. Their biggest mistake has been ignoring the growing anger and opposition to the neocon/third way

policies that have so harmed so many people. Arrogant in their 'success' going back to the 'nineties, they dismissed the dissatisfaction of voters, ignored it, lost the House and Senate, then rather than concede that it WAS they who lost those elections and are primed to lose the next one, Dem Leadership did the worst thing they could have done, BLAMED THE VOTERS.

Meanwhile voters have been busy, at the local and state levels, rebuilding the party from the ground up, ditching national leadership, ignoring THEM and their choices of candidate, mainly Wall St friendly, and finding and supporting candidates locally and statewide, AND WINNING.

It isn't just dissatisfaction they had to deal with, it is the most politically active members of their own party, finally taking matters into their own hands.

Strategizing for the FUTURE, while all the third way leadership can do is look for scapegoats.

Now those same voters have finally found a candidate THEY can support, not chose FOR them by Wall St.

I do not WANT them to conceded anything, or to pretend to once they finally 'get it', that if they don't, all their 'work' is likely to be undone by popular demand. Because I wouldn't believe or trust them.

They dismissed all attempts to warn them that they could no longer count on their traditional and taken-for-granted votes.

That's their problem.

Ours was we went along, believing that sooner or later if we kept Dems in power, we would begin to see changes.

That was naive. But that was then. People are not that naive anymore and a movement is growing to stop the policies that got us to where we are and that can only be done by no longer 'settling'.