Reply #7: Its a real shame that more democrats havn't figured this out yet

[MirrorAshes]

Its so simple-- why would they stoop to the level of corruption and deceit that they have if they could win elections on good old fashioned ideas? Clearly they can't, and they know it. They've stayed relevent through sheer intimidation, and of course the deification of Reagan, but if we democrats knew how to play the game better we'd be a step ahead of them every time. Too many people are turned off of politics largely because the republicans have set the rules of the game and the democrats have been too weak to recognize that they could be playing in another league alltogether. Perhaps if we actually had some confidence in our own beliefs and history and presented them to the country without the self-perpetuating stain of republican ridicule we'd get those hundreds of thousands of people who don't vote to come to the polls and support what, in reality, are most certainly the mainstream and modern views of the country.