Is this too emotional and "not reality based" to be taken seriously?
This is England, not the USA, but this Lib Dem MP's concerns are the same as those of "progressive" american dems.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/07/lib-dem-sarah-teather-step-down
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Top Lib Dem Sarah Teather to step down in despair at Nick Clegg's policies
Sarah Teather says party is not fighting for justice and describes how immigration policy left her 'desolate'.
The prominent Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather – who shot to fame when she became the youngest member of parliament a decade ago – has announced that she is to quit the House of Commons because she no longer feels that Nick Clegg's party fights sufficiently for social justice and liberal values on immigration.
In a blow to Clegg a week before his party gathers for its annual conference in Glasgow, Teather said his tougher approach to immigration – including a plan for some immigrants to pay a £1,000 deposit when applying for visas – left her feeling so "desolate" and "catastrophically depressed" that she was unable even to confront him over the issue. "It was an absolutely black moment. I couldn't even move from my seat when I read it. I was so depressed I couldn't even be angry. I was utterly desolate," she says.
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What I read is that Teather got to the end of her rope w.r.t. the impossibility of her doing justice to the political ideals that motivated her to seek office within a Lib Dem party that failed her.
That's why I asked "not reality based enough?" Is she too much an idealist, and should she bend to the "reality" Clegg's party offers? Or, perhaps, should others of like mind and experience quit as well, band together under a new banner, and shuck off an ossified and compromised elite?