OK...can we agree to fight ALEC, the Koch bros. and the Tea Party?

[TheKentuckian]

6. Are we going to fight labels and organizations or goals, agenda, and principles?

If it is just the labels and not the ideas then I have to say that fighting shadows is essentially fighting your self. Good to get into shape, poor for actually stopping and advancing agendas.

Sorry, the "big tent" theory only goes so far, eventually either no one is represented or somebody takes control and dominates. Too much of the reaction to this combined with the TeaPubliKlan run to the Bircher/reactionary far right has been deep, blood freezing fear among Democrats to the point they are willing to become Reaganites minus the southern strategy shit in order to hold some line against the radical regressives.

I just cannot go there, we morph into the very core of what we opposed for a lifetime and excuse it by sanding down the exterior rough edges. The shit they used to rile the rubes and battles in a national history long slog to gain franchise, forgetting the point of franchise is to be included in the actual decision making process, to be represented in our mutual affairs not a game show or a popularity contest to distract us from being looted and locked down.