2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: DU is becoming an example of what is wrong with our political system [View all]zentrum
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.the democratic party but I don't think it's because democrats attack each other as the primary reason. It's because the major democrats, the DNC and leadership have failed to articulate a clear not-republican message for the country as a whole. They have instead, beginning with Bill Clinton, moved right, become more pro-corporate and tried to sound republican-ish, but with a few more liberal social policies.
What you see on DU is the split between these new 3rd way democrats and the more clearly progressive FDR/Kennedy/Wellstone/Warren centered democrats. It's hard for some of us to fight for, campaign for, and fund democrats that don't seem like the center left progressives the democrats have always been.
Wish I had time to say this better but it's the big guns in our party who have ceased articulating a clear ideological distinction.