Reply #29: Right, we can take NOTHING for granted ... [View All]

[marions ghost]

it is time for reform of the Dem party, and that doesn't mean pandering to the DLC DINOS anymore. It is not time for party unity above all, it's time for major changes. This dialogue about the DLC is critical to that goal and is overdue.

It's always the Progressive wing that has to kowtow to the Conservative wing of the Dem party. Never the other way around. Exactly HOW FAR has that gotten us? We need to get out of this downtrodden mentality --that we 'liberals' must be satisfied with the crumbs all the time... IT"S TIME for the liberal majority to come out of the holding pen. We need to emphasize unity among liberals/progressives FIRST, which is difficult enough. Let the DINOS understand that Times have Changed. If the DLC corporate elites were really essential to us, they would have proved that before now. They need to be challenged and exposed. In addition we need to be suspicious of the pervasive DLC "mentality"--the notion that the Dem party needs to be conservative to win.

Can the OP or anyone else please tell me what the DLC (or DLC mentality in general) is REALLY doing for the rest of us?