2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ticked off millennials are taking on the Democrats [View all]CobaltBlue
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And that is why you get socially liberal people as Ds who, otherwise, are in line with Rs on economic, justice issues (and such).
By doing that, it can be more about branding than anything else.
I think the realignment is overdue for todays Democratic Party. The Republicans are an ideologically right-wing party. Just for the sake of an overall different platform, the Democrats need to be an ideologically left-wing driven party.
On issues like the military and national security
that is where they dont seem to distinguish from each other. And, in that case, what does it matter? If anything one should want from both Republican and Democratic partiesone should want them to be very different from each other on military and national security.
This is key to why Im not willing to settle for the mythical center or centrist or moderate modifier of a breed of Democratic leader. If the Republicans can have their Ronald Reagan and their George W. Bush, from the Republican presidential realigning period of 19682004 (7 of 10 cycles won), the Democrats (200820xx realigning period) should have their counterpart of a president (and Barack Obama was never it) who actually leads and delivers as a one genuine liberal. I think a hell of a lot of Democrats want it; but even more, the independents who are Lean Democratic, absolutely want it. Nominating Hillary, rather than Bernie, has wasted a golden opportunity.