2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary is not a Democrat, she's a Moderate Republican like Obama and Bill [View all]HassleCat
(6,409 posts)As you pointed out, Bernie Sanders fits the model of a traditional Democrat. The Third Way movement, the element that controls the party right now, responds with, "Big yawn! So last Tuesday!" They believe the way to keep Democrats in office is to shift far enough rightward to steal issues and positions out from under the Republicans. It works, sort of, for a Democratic president providing he or she gets elected in the first place. Obamacare is a good example. And it sometimes works to get Democrats elected as president, Bill Clinton being an example. But it sucks as an overall strategy. We are now the minority party at every level of government, from the national congress, down to state legislatures and governorships, right down to school boards. We are doing something terribly, terribly wrong.