2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I don't think that the greatest danger to the Democratic Party is the GOP [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)themselves would do well to recall that the same verbiage about pragmatism and moderation were employed for many years by the conservative Democrats who opposed LGBT rights and marriage equality. They always asserted that their regressive and bigoted views were really 'moderate and pragmatic'.
This was the practice for so very long that now, when I hear such assertions of wise, calm and pragmatic moderation I always ask for specifics. If I am 'too left' for the so called 'moderate' that 'moderate' needs to specify what they mean exactly by that, or I simply assume they are dressing up their biases and self interests in their habitually self serving verbiage about moderate politics and how horrible and radical others are. Remember, what we now call 'LGBT activists' used to be called 'militant homosexuals' by both Republicans and 'moderate Democrats' opposed to progress and human rights.
So what specifically are you to my right on? What are your differences with those you characterize as 'radicals' and threats worse than Republicans? Your conclusions are very strongly phrased but your supporting arguments are absent.