Reply #13: So, what electorate do you think the Dems should represent? [View All]

[rogerashton]

With your program, we liberals stay home, vote Nader, or run our own candidate, the Repubs still dominate the right, and the Democratic Party comes in -- third, as whats-his-name did in 1992 going after that contituency.

The ideological differences in this country are a fact -- and it is a fact that the wars we "anti-war crazies" have opposed were wars that wasted American lives and treasure and made the country weaker. (Every competent authority on military strategy that I have read, and I have read several, regards the Iraq war as a strategic blunder.) Yes, it is difficult to be successful opposing stupid wars, since war fever is a powerful irrational motivation: but if the Democratic Party won't do it, we will have to have a party that does, and the Democratic Party will then go the way of -- oh, yes, Perot.

It is a fact, according to many polls, that the majority in this country support liberal policies on domestic issues -- and declare that they oppose liberals. It is clear from that that we liberals have not gotten our message across. Maybe our mistake has been sticking with the Democratic Party -- ya think?