Reply #2: From the interviews I just heard on the radio...this is a movement that will

[BrklynLiberal]

attempt to move everything just a little bit more to the right.

Their equalizing the "extremes" of the left and the right is a definite put off.
The repukes are the ones who are refusing to move at all. They have been blocking every
attempt to get anything done.
The Left has been the side that has been willing to compromise...and it got us NO WHERE!!!

The comments have been anti-union, anti-activist, pro-privatization, pro-applesauce..i.e.
If you don't voice any strong opinions, no one can argue against you..

It does not sound at all like anything I would back

http://www.truth-out.org/disaster-messaging61170

Democrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here's a description of the typical situation:

* The Republicans out-message the Democrats. The Democrats, having no effective response, face disaster: They lose politically, either in electoral support or failure on crucial legislation.

* The Democrats then take polls and do focus groups. The pollsters discover that extremist Republicans control the most common ("mainstream") way of thinking and talking about the given issue.

* The pollsters recommend that Democrats move to the right: adopt conservative Republican language and a less extreme version of conservative policy, along with weakened versions of some Democratic ideas.

* The Democrats believe that, if they follow this advice, they can gain enough independent and Republican support to pass legislation that, at least, will be some improvement on the extreme Republican position.

* Otherwise, the pollsters warn, Democrats will lose popular support - and elections - to the Republicans, because mainstream thought and language resides with the Republicans.

* Believing the pollsters, the Democrats change their policy and their messaging and move to the right.

* The Republicans demand even more and refuse to support the Democrats.


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