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In reply to the discussion: The war on the "far left" is an effort to move the Democratic Party to the right. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)are you gonna tell me that THIS is not an attack on a Party leader, on the husband of our future Presidential nominee? http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3489774
The trouble is that most of the attacks here are not "suggesting that Obama and the party divorce themselves from certain positions"
instead they are attacks on Obama and the party for NOT divorcing themselves from certain positions.
The bigger trouble is that the attackers simply assume that most of the public agrees with their positions. For example "fossil fuel use". I am guessing, based on the number of weapons of mass destruction (I understand that other people call them "cars" on the roads every day that the vast, vast majority of Americans are "pro fossil fuel".
I mean, there are a few old hippies like me on bicycles growling at the other drivers, but we are way outnumbered.
Even here, where it may seem like preaching to the choir, I think the far left should do a much better job of "trying to win people to our side" than we do. Instead it always seems like scorched earth, flame on, and death to the heretics.