Posted on 07/06/2017 11:50:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The path back to power for the Democratic Party today, as it was in the 1990s, is unquestionably to move to the center and reject the siren calls of the left, whose policies and ideas have weakened the party.
The last few years of the Obama administration and the 2016 primary season once again created a rush to the left. Identity politics, class warfare and big government all made comebacks. Candidates inspired by Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren and a host of well-funded groups have embraced sharply leftist ideas. But the results at the voting booth have been anything but positive.
Central to the Democrats’ diminishment has been their loss of support among working-class voters, who feel abandoned by the party’s shift away from moderate positions on trade and immigration, from backing police and tough anti-crime measures, from trying to restore manufacturing jobs. They saw the party being mired too often in political correctness, transgender bathroom issues and policies offering more help to undocumented immigrants than to the heartland.
Americans are looking for can-do Democrats in the mold of John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton — leaders who rose above partisanship to unify the country, who defended human rights and equality passionately, and who also encouraged economic growth and rising wages. That is the road back to relevance, and the White House, for the Democrats.
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MARK PENN and ANDREW STEIN...
Those two better have their resumes up-to-date....
No, no, no! Stay the course, ‘rats. You’re doing great!
Lol! It would all be lies. They are psycho perverts and communist liars. They will facilitate the destruction of America no matter what campaign lies they tell.
They mean campaign from the center.
But when elected they have more left turns than NASCAR.
This battle has already been fought and won by the far left.
The Obamaites turned up the heat a little too high and the plebian frogs realized they were being boiled. Can the radical Left ever go back to incrementalism?
Ha, ha. After decades of courting the kooks and dividing people up into categories, the Democrats will NEVER be able to move to the center again — ever. Democrats are now hostage to the beast they created. The kooks, with no residual ability to reason or think critically, will never allow Democrats to move towards reason and sanity.
NYT = Not Yielding to Truth
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
So when the NYT and the Left say "center", they mean
Don't believe a word they say.
You’re correct. The Democrats will never move to the center, BUT they will pretend to be moderate. Deception is their best weapon, and too many lemmings fall for it.
Naturally, the tantruming Dems on twitter have exploded at this dose of reality upside their heads.
Saw this story on DU...
Seven comments on it...ALL NEGATIVE!!!!!
They want to go farther LEFT!!!!!
Ha, ha. After decades of courting the kooks and dividing people up into categories, the Democrats will NEVER be able to move to the center again — ever. Democrats are now hostage to the beast they created. The kooks, with no residual ability to reason or think critically, will never allow Democrats to move towards reason and sanity.
The Dems only hope is that the GOP splits. The progressive corportist and Patriot wings of the GOP can never coexist again because our agendas are diametrically opposed.
Trump has given the GOPe a lifeline. Let’s hope they take it.
Saw this story on DU...
Seven comments on it...ALL NEGATIVE!!!!!
They want to go farther LEFT!!!!!
Shall we help them build their own gallows? LOL.
Option A)
Get behind Antifa and BLM and beat the shit out of average Americans, tear away at the thin blue line all the while inventing conspiracies against Republicans who were elected by 62 million Americans
OR
Option B)
Lie about your policy positions just like Barack Obama to get back into power so you can double the national debt again, bankrupt American and centralize all power in Government.
I say stick with A
Option A)
Get behind Antifa and BLM and beat the shit out of average Americans, tear away at the thin blue line all the while inventing conspiracies against Republicans who were elected by 62 million Americans
OR
Option B)
Lie about your policy positions just like Barack Obama to get back into power so you can double the national debt again, bankrupt American and centralize all power in Government.
I say stick with A
They’re doing a good job of it themselves....LOL
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