[arthurus]

The actual minority Bolsheviks are trying to purging the Mensheviks. It is classic Communist procedure. Divide the Party and divide the Party again until it is pure and has only one Leader or one Politburo. Once it rules the polity then the infighting can commence for real and almost all of the loyalists can be purged so that only the now Supreme Leader has no competition in the Party.

[dixie1202]

Disagree with the Left on just ONE key issue and you could be purged. #walkaway

[LS]

I know we all know this, but

Salena, Salena, Salena: There are NO “centrists” in the DemoKKKrat Party.

They are Full Commie.

Ya never go Full Commie.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I live here in Pennsyltucky and can kind of explain this.

Most people around here are culturally conservative. That’s for sure.

However, despite this the Democrat Party has a virtual death grip on electoral politics for a lot of deeply ingrained historical reasons.

The Democrat Party, for reasons that are at this point wholly irrational, is perceived as “Da Party of Da Workin’ Man!”. This is for reasons that go way back to the Homestead Strike of 1892, the Robber Baron era and radical labor activism that co-opted the Catholic Church in the 1930’s. Generation after generation of young children growing up in Pittsburgh have had their parents and grandparents come to their bedrooms each night and teach them the Our Father, Humpty Dumpty, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Da Democrats is for DA WORKIN’ MAN! It’s so deeply ingrained in people’s psyches at this point that they react like Pavlov-trained dogs without ever giving it any critical thought.

Thus you have stuff happening like little old Catholic ladies who attend daily Mass regularly pulling the lever for Democrats who have never met an abortion they wouldn’t vote for. Can anything break the spell? This article perhaps points to our first opening. There is a new generation of Democrat taking control of the local party that is mainly led by young Bill Peduto fans. These are largely Millenial techies who have moved here to take tech jobs and have brought their Boston and Seattle politics with them. This is starting to grate on the old-school labor Dems who, although much more closely aligned with Republicans on social issues, can’t suppress their gag reflex when it comes to voting for one.

We’re a long way off from the spell being broken I fear.

[MNJohnnie]

There are no moderate Democrats.

There are the honest Democrats like Sanders and Warren who tell their truth about the Democrat Fascist Party political agenda.

They are opposed by the rest of the Establishment Democrats, who share the agenda, but lie about it every election year to get votes.