Reply #73: I won't speak for DFA because I am not a member.

[Tom Rinaldo]

And I am not a leftist purist, so if that makes me not progressive, so be it. Someday, I hope America embraces Instant Run offs which will free more people to vote clearly in line with their personal beliefs, without sometimes hindering those beliefs (by helping the worst possible candidate defeat the second best candidate by voting for the best one even if that person is out of contention). Until then furthering progressive ends is a little more complex than just having the most progressive positions, or aiding the person with the most progressive positions. Results matter. Moving the Party to the left could include moving certain districts from Conservative to Centrist. Taking power out of the hands of special interests is progressive by nature even if the real people who get to begin making decisions instead don't always make "progressive" ones.