Hillary is not a Democrat, she's a Moderate Republican like Obama and Bill

[wyldwolf]

90. The 'DLC' card is SO tired.

Accepting that there is an imperfect fit between the Democratic Party and the furthest aims of left and progressive people, several things must be acknowledged.

First, it has to be acknowledged that left and progressive people really do not have solid ground to proclaim they and only they are true Democrats, or are the real base of the Democratic Party, and that people who are left of center or center-left or even centrists are not really Democrats or are 'Republicans.'

Second, left and progressive people need to consider whether the tactic of attacking people who are perhaps a bit to the right of them, though generally well to the left of a national average, or of the average in the locale where they reside, as rightists who do not belong in the Democratic Party, is likely to expand and increase their influence in the Democratic Party, and advance the prospects of actually getting laws and regulations they would like to see adopted come to pass.

The perennial brouha here about what constitutes a "real Democrat", bear very little relation with the actual states and history of the Democratic Party. The idea that figures like President Clinton and Secretary Clinton are not "real Democrats" is nothing but the punch-line to a very poor joke, although it is certainly true that they embraced many policies and ideas that some of our radicals today detest. But that latter is hardly an indication they were not "real Democrats"; rather, it is an indication that such radicals are somewhat out of step with the Democratic Party as a real institution and political force, as opposed to an ideal item they imagine not only to be fact, but to be wholly agreeable to them. The faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the Cold War had its political trial with the campaign for President of Sec. Wallace in 1948, and failed utterly, gaining the votes of only a handful of people. What is repudiated at the polls by the overwhelming preponderance of Democratic voters cannot be the real face of the Democratic Party. It really is that simple.

That President Clinton could be described from some vantages as centrist is hardly sufficient to establish as fact a claim he is not a "real Democrat". Such a statement depends on assent to the proposition that the Democratic Party is an organ of the far left, and there really is not a trace of support for this notion in history.