Reply #91: Nonsense...it's our 'language' if we want to use it...

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You seem to be working from the assumption that the Democratic party is one big happy family working together towards a common goal. But essentially it's the 'Centrists' versus the Liberals and Progressives. Throwing away the word liberal won't change that reality.

Coincidentally...the Clinton DLCers also want nothing to do with liberals...the word or the ideology. They're promoting a 'third way' that pretty much looks like the Republican agenda with a few crumbs thrown in for the Dem faithful.

You've suggested that 'many' Dem candidates have lost because of the WORD liberal. And then you claim there are so many that you can't even count them. But could the alternative be that no liberals have even campaigned for office in decades? Could it be that the 'New Democrats' who have taken over the party have helped the RWingers smear liberals to keep them out of leadership positions?

Clinton never used the word liberal because he wasn't a liberal. He was one of the first Democrats in recent history to sell out the party to corporations and special interests NOT beholden to the party base. He gave his corporate GOP friends more than they could have ever dreamed of: the beginning of the destruction of social welfare, further weakening of unions, trade agreements unfair to American workers and a telecommunications act that became the precursor for far-right conservatives to take control of the free press.

The 'lesson' you seem to want us to learn is to compromise without getting anything in return. To trade our principles and values for cash. To help establish a one-party state that works for corporations instead of the people.

How naive is it to think that changing the word 'liberal' will help us win elections? How about sticking to the principles that made our party strong in the first place and return to being the party of the people?