I was just called "radical left"

[Kentonio]

81. The window only moves rightwards..

Because when the GOP move right, we always have supposed 'centrists' insisting we have to also move right to keep up. Oh and if you question any of it, you're a naive radical lefty who is actually helping the other side. Meanwhile by us moving right too, we've actually legitimized the rightward slide of the other party in the past because things that are now Democratic policies like ACA were actually Republican ideas. But that's suddenly ok, because the right is just more extreme now. Really?

The position of many of us is that the right can suck it quite frankly, their insidious policies and ideology are vile, and if the left coalesce around some genuinely left wing policies then the public who spent years leaving political parties will return and support us.

Except some are determined to stop this. The only major media the left gets tends to be if we get a major success story like Sanders come along in a primary. Started out with next to no media attention and treated as a joke, built up great momentum and mobilized vast numbers of ordinary people to donate and vote. In any other organization that would be a clear success indicator and something that you'd build on to see how far you can take it. Not us, we say 'Well in this time limited contest where you started out with a vast disadvantage, you didnt win, so therefore your way is clearly wrong as we'll do it how we always have'.