"Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech"

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186. You know, this reminds me of Venn

diagrams that I learned about in high school (back in 1963-67).

The upshot, though, seems to be that there are more on the "left" than there are "Democrats" in terms of where the party is now. It is simply that the term "Democrat" had been traditionally embraced by the largest portion of X numbers of people in certain groups ( unions and workers, peace activists, the economically dispossessed, a struggling middle class, those committed to human rights - GLBT communities, women's rights, immigrants rights - and the list goes on) as a way of ultimately achieving their ( the particular groups) goals. Since, for the most part, they shared similar agendas of economic equality and social justice, the dems were good to go.

Unfortunately, in the current Democratic party, the Third-Way won, or seems to have won. And at the center of the Venn diagram, now, - the thing that - to differing degrees, - motivates the elected representatives is the interests of the corporatists. For the Democrats, it is the "nice" corporatists, but still, the corporatists ( we hate Koch, but the Pritzker's aren't so bad - one is even involved in venture capitalism for weed). Time to draw a new Venn diagram that puts the communities committed to economic and social justice at the center.