What po'd me most about Carville's remarks yesterday. I slept on it [View All]

[Skidmore]

and this morning I'm able to articulate the chord it struck in me. It is exactly this kind of thinking that has been used to castigate "liberals" as some sort of pariahs and made "liberalism" a bad word over the past 30 years. The idea that somehow holding values of tolerance and inclusiveness needs to be subverted or denigrated in some way for more pedestrian and self-serving goals. Because of this, the nation as a whole has tacked so far to the right that even paleocons are now seen as "liberal" is telling. Carville and his fellow DLCers should stop to consider the necessary role that liberal ideals have played in the evolution of America. I would not want to live in an America without liberals or progressives or progressive liberals (and I'm one of those). If the party turns its back on those ideas, it will lose me and many others. If the party turns to becoming only Republican-light, it will lose a large portion of its base. We need to help the nation tack to the left and embrace those values again.

Signed

Skidmore
A Proud Progressive Liberal turning Radical