If the Democratic Party went Populist would Centrists Flee?

[Hortensis]

139. Oh, this has to stop! :) For sure a lot of the numbers are pumped

up by invidious agents, right and left, who are trying to make us seem divided and weak and distract from a GOP that's collapsed under the weight of years of corruption and betrayal of its voters.

Wow to what you do for a living. Not claiming in any way to have lived what the people you face every day do, but I was often homeless as a child, my mother suffering from major depression and alcoholism. She frequently got in trouble with the law simply by being too visible, and we were constantly moving. I experienced firsthand the "system" failing and even abusing me in many places different ways. And I know firsthand that many in it regard poor whites much the same as poor blacks, though I suspect now their contempt and hostility may have had a different genesis for white people who violated their ideas of the natural order. I've even been physically "brutalized" a couple times by viciously callous police as a child, though nothing that didn't stop hurting after a while.

So I at least know it's real. Frankly, I read very little about the atrocities these days because I don't need to be converted to a believer and the sick feeling of knowing it still continues as bad as it does is too real all by itself. I prefer to believe that we will move beyond this reactionary period after "too much" advance, recoup our losses, and advance further. And I do.