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In reply to the discussion: Um, this has more to do with 20+ years of Third Way Dems appeasing real crazies, [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)did even in 2008 for Democrats. It was Independents who had come out for Obama in 2008 who stayed home in large numbers in 2010. There is not a shred of truth in that claim. Maybe you are just repeating what you have seen others say over and over again despite the number of times this false claim has been debunked. But it is false.
Left leaning Independents were disappointed by the many times Dems, who they elected to end Bush policies, continued to vote for them, as were many Progressives. But unlike Progressives, many of them simply didn't vote in 2010. THAT is the fault of the Dem Party who as Manny points out, 'compromised' and 'catered to', as Obama himself admitted he was doing, over and over again.
And since they got so used to Dems 'compromising' and believing in 'bi-partisanship' with one of the most reactionary Right Wing Congress' ever, they are doing it again.
It isn't enough now for the Dems to refuse to compromise on just the ACA. They MUST refuse to compromise on SS, and on Trade Agreements that harm the American people and on all the other demands they are making re the budget which people are forgetting right now.
No more Bi-Partisanship and Compromising with these crazies.
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