You are witnessing the first "Stochastic Smearjob"

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96. Is rigid ideological purity better?

Its strangling the GOP to death, so I say its not even a consideration. Look, you use a lot of malicious labels to frame an argument based on your so called "facts", but these are nothing more than your opinions and your personal viewpoints. Like everyone else, I have my own ideas and yours simply fall short of the mark. They are useless to me.

The Democratic Party has always been a big tent party that included many different perspectives from conservative Dems to communists and everything in between, so no one is going to kick them all out just to appease one faction. And since the world is not the same is it was Pat Moynihan's day, we have moved on too. Thankfully most people have broader, more diverse views than just the one size fits all version.

Your everyman fantasy of the quintessential American working man of yesteryear is gone, and manufacturing is gone with him. Even in countries with cheap labor, modern technologies is replacing man with machines. The world is evolving, and to remain viable the Democrats will change to embrace the future, maybe not in the way you want, but in a way that includes many more people.