Dems can do better than "too big to fail" campaigns (x-post)

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3. Thank you.

This is an example of why the "if Progressives would vote locally they would have more representation" is utter bullshit. The Third Way folks pick the candidates at a certain level, and there is not much other candidates can do.

Even huger bs: Find your own candidates for POTUS and persuade them to run. That one is so far-fetched, yet got posted at DU so often, it HAD to be a talking point.

While pandering is definitely undesirable, at least they are giving lip service to leftists. Even the perceived need to pander to the left is considerable progress.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12777724

Not to mention that pandering to the left sure makes one skeptical that the left of the left is such a small minority everywhere but DU.

If we are such a small minority within the party and/or the country, why are politicians even bothering to pander to us? Why run to the left? After all, Democrats are confident that "the left has nowhere else to go."

Why not run to the alleged centrist majority's way of thinking? Hell, even DLC co-founder Hillary isn't doing that.