Reply #4: There are "moderate" Democrats and then there are [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

"ask the Repubicans for permission to exist" Democrats.

I can't stand the latter.

I am also more sympathetic to Dems who fudge on personal behavior issues than I am to Dems who play poodle to corporate interests. I doubt if advocating for NAFTA wins a lot of votes in the South.

On the matter of a "strong defense," the voters need to be told that the U.S. military is already--even with Clinton's alleged cutbacks--larger than the next six put together. That's right: larger than Russia and China and the next four countries put together. (Something like Ben Cohen's Oreo demonstration might be helpful there.) Yet most of it is going not to the troops but to the military contractors. It might be helpful to get past this knee-jerk militarism and teach the voters what actually makes the U.S. strong and what just enriches the fat cats.