Democrats have their Schlitz Beer Reckoning.

[muntrv]

The Schlitz Beer saga, the story of how America's once favorite beer altered its hallmark recipe disastrously while seeking short term profits at the expense of quality and reputation, has always seemed to me to be analogous to the modern Democratic Party of the last decades.

I have often wondered these past few years - when will the message and role of the Democratic Party become so watered down, so diluted, so unpalatable and unrecognizable from its former self that the public, even the most loyal customers, simply stops buying it?

I think we're there.

Don't blame the public, Democratic Party - blame your own executives for short-sighted expediency, blame substituting inferior ingredients and blame changing your brewing process. In short, you have failed at every level.

The old Democratic brew was reliable and earthy. It stood for the people at the bottom of the economic pyramid supporting the entire structure. It stood for labor and civil rights and economic and social justice and the general welfare.

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[friendly_iconoclast]

1. Too fucking true! K&R

[yourout]

2. Good read......Maybe it's time for The Progress Party. It's going to take many years but...

if we start with school boards and work from the state level maybe we can build the foundation in my lifetime.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. I just cannot believe that after 8 fucking years of the BFEE...

we are where we are now. It is truly mind-blowing.

PONIES! "It stood for labor and civil rights and economic and social justice and the general welfare."

Does anyone know if any Dems ran loud and proud as Democrats? Not this "independent thinker" bullshit from Grimes, or Hagan's milquetoast "not too far left, not too far right."

[A Simple Game]

4. Even worse with Grimes was the fact it was in a national spotlight because of the race she was in.

Couldn't even admit to voting for President Obama? Who did she think people would think she voted for? That went in the national press, not just Kentucky's press. She hurt the entire Democratic Party.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

5. I'm trying to think how Teddy or FDR would have answered that question.

They sure as shit wouldn't have sat there and squirmed if asked if they voted for a member of their own f*cking party.

Same with Kay Hagan on ObamaCare. DEFEND your vote, Kay. Explain who it is helping, and how NC is missing out. What a blown opportunity.

[DocMac]

8. I know. It's almost like voting for

a war that never should have happened. You simply cannot shame these people.

[frylock]

6. disillusioned moderate republicans have taken over your party..

the party of FDR is dead and gone.

[whereisjustice]

7. 3rd way conservatives did a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. They rat fucked it. So this is

what we have. And now they are demanding that we like it.