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In reply to the discussion: The Democratic Party is a Big Tent [View all]Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)Otherwise, we LOSE, perish the thought? The best we can hope for is the DLC vision? Further compromise will trump former Democratic principles? Something like that?
You seem to be under the naive impression that the DLC actually would do something different if they held the reins.
Whether the GOP or the DLC has won, we've still gone down the tubes. The two have sold, and will continue to sell, the rest of us out. How you dovetail voting DLC and preserving idealism is beyond me. Truly.
Thom Keane soft-pedaled unwarranted Iraq-invasion criticism of the W Administration through the term GroupThink. You suggest doing the same. Let's give all votes to the DLC, and chastise the lefty rogue voters as dreamers, and part of the problem. Let Kucinich scream" Where are the weapons of mass destruction?" then laugh at him, logic and principles be damned.
Its one thing to not have the votes to change things, it is another to validate the spurious policies of the Right. The validation will take much longer to undo, and cost votes. Dean's 50-state strategy was chastised by the DLC at the time. They've certainly enjoy its fruits lately.
It IS a Big Tent, stop trying to herd progressives into your smaller one. The Republican narrow tent espouses seductive, focused, funded, circular logic that attracts those looking for easy answers. When challenged, they can't compete with progressive ideas. That is our battlefield. For progressives to fall on their swords and sacrifice at the altar of DLC compromise is to remain in this GOP Twilight Zone. I for one refuse.