Reply #56: Your premise is flawed [View All]

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Many of your positions seem to be closer to that of the GOP than the Democratic party.

- You should know: there can be NO compromise on many of the issues that we've fought for over decades. From 'choice' to civil rights to unions to public education to regulation of corporations and the environment

On every issue you list above, there are profound differences between the GOP record and even the most conservative positions of the DLC.

Also, it is untrue that there can be "NO compromise" on these issues. On the environment, for example, there is a wide range of views even among the most extreme pro-environment groups. Compromise will be a key component of any solutions society reaches on these issues and would be even if the Greens won 100% of national elected offices.

I believe the leadership of the Democratic party has moved much too far to the right. Clinton was a moderate-conservative and abandoned me on many issues, but he was infinitely better than any Repug president of my adult life.

With all due respect, I believe your characterization of conservative Democrats is a caricature that ignores important and very real differences between the parties. I think you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

I also do not support AT ALL your tactic of suggesting that any Democrat should switch parties. That is a self-defeating and lazy tactic. We should be putting our energy into aligning the party and its members with our views instead of fragmenting the party, especially at a time when we need every vote.