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In reply to the discussion: Debbie Wasserman Schulz needs to go. [View all]Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)because the left is ignored, unless they need someone to blame. Our concerns and issues get swept under the rug. For example: in the health care debate Single Payer wasn't even allowed within 500 miles of the table, let alone being on the table for discussion. And the Public Option (a cheap watered down alternative) was taken off the table in the opening rounds. Instead we wound up with a plan even more conservative than Bob Dole's 1996 health care plan.
The left has no seat at the table in the Democratic Party any more. And when you consider that what is seen as "left" today encompasses not only the real left but people who were considered moderate and even conservative Democrats 30 years ago before the Great Rightward Drift began, that means there is no seat at the table for the vast majority of the party.