Can the Democratic Party be used for good?

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3. A good article.

(up front: I'm Canadian, offering a token opinion, and I know that I can't *be there*)

I think Sanders is telling it straight, and I don't see a dichotomy separating support for Sanders in this Dem primary from continuing to build other social and political structures.

Sanders is filling an opening on the left that is created by the current political situation, where the the Third-Way (under whatever more friendly name) is identical to the triangulated Republican "center", whatever that "center" is. So the term 'centrist' (along with the associated adjective 'moderate'), which Third-Way appropriates as belonging to them, to their faction, is defined by the Republican party, not by them. This is an intolerable state of affairs for many, and it has to be corrected from both within and without.