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81. I agree with your post with one addition:

Roosevelt. HE wasn't scared of his own shadow -- afraid he might piss off someone from the reich wing. Roosevelt took them head on AND THE COUNTRY WAS BEHIND HIM. See, that's what the current batch of Third Way "Democrats" don't understand. MOST of this country IS to the left -- they've just been brainwashed so deeply by the corporate-owned MSM that "liberal" is a dirty word and they don't want to be a dirty word. Roosevelt actually LED the party to the left -- for the most part kicking and screaming all the way but he did it.

Political parties, by nature, need strong leaders and the Democrats haven't seen one of those since Clinton. The problem was, Clinton was/is a corporate sell-out (see NAFTA, Glass-Stegall repeal, welfare "reform&quot . We haven't seen a true leftist President since Carter. Unfortunately, he was a victim of timing (Nixon's inflationary policies that were bound to jack up inflation -- which it did AND the Iran Hostage Crisis). It was about that time that the word "liberal" became a dirty word and the idiotic Democratic Party ACCEPTED that meme and, consequently, pretty much ran FROM Carter so he didn't get the fight he deserved from the Party Machine.

The problem isn't the Democratic Party itself, it's the lack of liberal leadership. When Clinton moved to the right and started accepting barrels full of corporate monies there was a quid pro quo. The Republicans had always had that understanding with big bidness but the Democrats were always the party of the people, of the unions, of the poor, middle-class, minorities, the unrepresented. But that all changed with Clinton and you can see where we are today. Democrats advocating drone murders, torture, the Patriot Act, Monsanto, ad nauseum. Those aren't Democrats, they're the worst kind of Republicans. That needs to change or there needs to be other alternatives for We the People to turn to. Beyond that I can't say more.