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Showing Original Post only (View all)The war on the "far left" is an effort to move the Democratic Party to the right. [View all]
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That should not be a controversial statement. (Aside from "war on" which is a figure of speech at this point to refer to a concerted effort against something but that has no formal definition)
A republican war on the "far right" would surely be an effort to move the Republican Party to the left, wouldn't it?
What I do not get is the objective. What is so god-awful leftist about the current Democratic coalition in aggregate that requires diminishing the left?
What possible use would a Democratic Party be that is moved to the right from where it is today? What is this left-less dream party supposed to look like?
Does the Democratic Party of today even have any leftist positions to jettison?
Is there some notion afoot that we would win more elections without the "far left"? Where? How? Are there leftist Dems out there losing to liberal-Republicans? (An inverse of our centrist-dem victories over tea-party Kamikaze candidates?)
Purging blue-dogs would be Party suicide. It would. The awful-fucking-left casts more Democratic votes than blue-dog types but somehow to win elections they should be shown the door... because they all vote for Nader anyway, y'know.
Which nut left positions forced on Obama by the cancerous Democratic left cost him all those elections? Oh, right... he won, didn't he?
Despite the Green Party getting 10%, 15% in 2008 and 2012... except they didn't. The awful left voted for Obama in droves.
Barrack Obama is the dream-centrist that the third-way delusionistas have been mewling for all these years. They won't admit it because they cannot accept that a third party is not needed, but he is reasonable and moderate and within the system and doggedly pro-capitalist and a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic-hawk and all the shit the mewlers ever demanded.
What position does Obama hold on ANYTHING that needs to be moved to the right? Seriously. What extremist left Obama positions am I missing?
Assuming the answer to that is "none," why does the Party need to move to the right?