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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]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)to win many seats and only able to win the WH by posing as a more liberal figure and that tactic is played. The Third Way and 'Reagan Democrat' types fear the coming leftward shift in the electoral landscape. They don't want primary battles they want Silver Plate nominations and Elections by Fiat so they are whining early and characterizing hard.
The current engagement is for the direction of the Party. If you note on DU there are very few of the centrist types they can't really rec anything up. They make use of extreme rhetoric and absurd, drooling, icon infested personalities to take the stage, to fill up space and look larger than they are, like those frogs who puff up their chins. They say 'Latin America is the cyst on the anus of the far left Paulites' and then lots of emoticons and links to their own posts or the blogs of Bob Cesca, a man they worship as a divinity.
They know they are going to lose so many Primaries to so many better, more democratic Democrats who are not just tweaked down versions of Republicans. This causes them to panic.