Posted on 05/26/2015 2:48:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Its debatable whether liberals are a strong force in US national politics. But it's much more likely theyre increasingly powerful within the Democratic Party itself.
Self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders kicks off his campaign for president on Tuesday in his hometown of Burlington, Vt. Hes hoping to attract an army of left-leaning Democrats who arent happy about Hillary Clintons past coziness with Wall Street and her Senate vote to authorize the Iraq War.
I know what I believe, said Senator Sanders in a fundraising e-mail issued prior to the event. Thats why today marks the beginning of our political revolution.
But how many voters share his beliefs and might be receptive to his message of income redistribution, expanded social benefits, and government-sponsored jobs and infrastructure efforts? How many liberals are there in America, and is their number on the increase?
First, a caveat: liberal has long been a loaded word in US political discourse. Decades of Republican campaign ads have denigrated liberals as profligate spenders, and perhaps soft on crime. Thus polls about what voters call themselves might not be, ideologically speaking, completely accurate....
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
To a point, yes I agree. But remember that many of the old guard now sing in the choir invisible. A lot of them are simply not here to fight the good fight anymore.
True that.
“Individually, zombies are weak....it’s just that there are so many of them!”
- from “The Last Man on Earth”, 1964
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