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MohRokTah

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52. The Left CONSTANTLY excoriated FDR.

Reply to merrily (Reply #33)

Sun May 31, 2015, 01:54 PM

May 2015

Far worse than they have done to Obama.

Just sayin'.

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Democrats should be wooing progressives, not scolding them. [View all] mother earth May 2015 OP

This LIBERAL would like to be represented some day! ananda May 2015 #1

+100000 CharlotteVale May 2015 #68

never stopped calling myself a liberal rurallib Jun 2015 #128

Wooing them to be Democrats? VanillaRhapsody May 2015 #2

Well then, I'll be expecting her to come out strong against TPP, & jail sentences for banksters mother earth May 2015 #6

See, here goes the scolding. Thinkingabout May 2015 #12

Why not help push it in the direction she wants it to go? cui bono May 2015 #63

BS, Warren & Sanders have come out strong against it. Scolding? Questioning is not scolding, not mother earth May 2015 #82

Don't know how the state department works, eh? Thinkingabout May 2015 #85

Has she said she'd give an opinion after the agreement? Funny, those who are mother earth May 2015 #90

Yeah. If that graph was accurate I would be supporting Hillary. Enthusiast May 2015 #26

That graph is a libertarian recruiting tool Recursion May 2015 #41

^^^This^^^ +1 n/t FSogol May 2015 #48

That graph is trotted out in nearly every thread MissDeeds May 2015 #47

It is meaningless, there is nothing to back it up, a nonsensical tool... mother earth May 2015 #84

Keep posting these charts Robbins May 2015 #10

Ditto! SoapBox May 2015 #32

I completely agree. Exilednight May 2015 #72

That graphic is inaccurate. It was no liberal that helped George Bush lie rhett o rick May 2015 #14

i mentioned that yesterday ablamj May 2015 #16

What doesn't make sense is that some denigrate liberals but then turn rhett o rick May 2015 #40

agreed ablamj May 2015 #42

And call themselves liberal with a capital L, when they clearly are not. cui bono May 2015 #64

Not according to this... Carewfan May 2015 #37

oh but ablamj May 2015 #44

She is populist too, doncha know. mother earth May 2015 #93

Looks closer to reality. However, I think candidate Obama should have been lower and to the left rhett o rick May 2015 #45

+1 L0oniX May 2015 #60

Is this the one put out by the UK source? Thinkingabout May 2015 #106

Is that graphic from that site that doesn't take everyting into account? cui bono May 2015 #62

I guess this is the answer of the day nadinbrzezinski May 2015 #83

Not any more. cui bono May 2015 #104

They have no problem blaming the Left when their candidates lose. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2015 #3

+1 daleanime May 2015 #25

Indeed. Yet, they claim (and act accordingly) the left is so fringe as to not matter. 2banon May 2015 #27

The democratic leadership knows that we Democrats will vote for any democrat. Autumn May 2015 #4

I don't know about that any more. I get the feeling some are questioning voting at all if all if it mother earth May 2015 #8

Like I said there are those of us who have always done that Autumn May 2015 #11

Amen to that. We do not support the oligarchy. mother earth May 2015 #76

It doesn't work with me anymore Robbins May 2015 #13

She was not silent about TPP as S of S. She helped negotiate it and supported it. merrily May 2015 #35

Truly. It tells us all we need to know. TPP is THE litmus test. nt mother earth May 2015 #77

I agree. Silence=Consent Bohunk68 Jun 2015 #126

That was their theory in 2010 and 2014. Didn't work so well. (nt) jeff47 May 2015 #20

+1 Understatement of the century. Well, 1928 was almost a century ago. merrily May 2015 #36

Yep, especially when we can see that tactic has taken the Dem Party further right, cui bono May 2015 #65

Many Democrats are voting out of undeserved "Brand Loyalty". bvar22 May 2015 #66

K&R abelenkpe May 2015 #5

Scolding's fine by me. Orsino May 2015 #7

I read this post and the first thing which comes to mind is the "scolding" of progressives. Thinkingabout May 2015 #9

+1 treestar May 2015 #18

Yes, the poor, oppressed centrists that are in complete control of the party leadership jeff47 May 2015 #22

I would hope... kentuck May 2015 #29

If Bernie does not win, maybe O'Malley will be the much stronger merrily May 2015 #38

I think she will ignore the 99% and favor the 1% Carewfan May 2015 #49

+1 daleanime May 2015 #31

The title of this thread is "Democrats should be wooing progressives, not scolding them" Thinkingabout May 2015 #34

Looking at those losses Carewfan May 2015 #50

Well, step 1 is to stop throwing us out of the party. jeff47 May 2015 #67

+1 Preach! (It is Sunday, after all.) merrily May 2015 #43

Boo hoo. DU's right has been making the most horrible accusations about the left for years. merrily May 2015 #39

Amen!!! smokey nj May 2015 #56

+1 a whole bunch! Enthusiast May 2015 #58

That's my feeling, as well. nt MannyGoldstein May 2015 #70

+ another Scuba Jun 2015 #123

+1000 marym625 Jun 2015 #127

+1 The DU right is so blatantly dishonest they are an embarrassment Zorra Jun 2015 #130

That's one big pile of shit. Scuba Jun 2015 #122

There is the Democratic Leadership and the grassroots Democrats. Two very different beasts. rhett o rick May 2015 #15

Yes. It doesn't take much imagination to realize that they are used to having their way all GoneFishin May 2015 #19

Why bother? treestar May 2015 #17

Because it works. jeff47 May 2015 #21

Anyone who wants to be POTUS will of necessity compromise treestar May 2015 #87

And, unsurprisingly, we're back to all those people failing your ideology. jeff47 May 2015 #96

The voters are where they are treestar May 2015 #108

they're NOT center Skittles Jun 2015 #120

Then explain the centrist candidate losses accompanied by progressive referendum wins in 2014. Scuba Jun 2015 #124

It's a myth that Obama ran as a non-centrist progressive candidate YoungDemCA May 2015 #114

They refuse to compromise? ForgoTheConsequence May 2015 #51

What? The ones in Congress you mean? treestar May 2015 #88

Yes. Those damn progressives demanding equal rights, civil rights, privacy, social security. cui bono May 2015 #74

"Things would go so much more smoothly if these progressives just went along with conservatives." arcane1 May 2015 #79

You mean Republicans? treestar May 2015 #92

They're not willing to meet anyone else halfway - or even a quarter of the way YoungDemCA May 2015 #115

You've changed to the goal from the means treestar May 2015 #91

I responded directly to your post. cui bono May 2015 #98

We do not demand to be "wooed." treestar May 2015 #107

Great post! Art_from_Ark Jun 2015 #132

Bravo!! BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #133

Progressives. Schmogressives. They are a minority in the Democratic Party anymore... kentuck May 2015 #23

Maybe at a visceral level, people are feeling that our current neoliberal capitalist model is PatrickforO May 2015 #24

Or the alternative? kentuck May 2015 #28

The problem with that is that we may not have time to uphold the status quo because of PatrickforO May 2015 #57

The "urgency of now".. kentuck May 2015 #71

+1 Enthusiast May 2015 #30

FDR's 40 years of coattails were no coincidence. merrily May 2015 #33

The Left CONSTANTLY excoriated FDR. MohRokTah May 2015 #52

Irrelevant to my post and totally beside the point. merrily May 2015 #54

I disagree completely with that. MohRokTah May 2015 #55

I agree but look at it from fredamae May 2015 #46

Democrats should BE Progressives. [n/t] Maedhros May 2015 #53

Most rank and file Democrats are. Some rank and file Republicans, too. Please see sources linked in merrily May 2015 #59

Sigh Susan.Garvin May 2015 #61

We will, and they will be. Despite doing their best to marginalize & persuade us otherwise, the mother earth May 2015 #69

The "tipping point"? kentuck May 2015 #73

Well, if it hasn't pushed us there yet, than I don't know what will. mother earth May 2015 #75

Look at how electible Third Way Democrats were in 2014. merrily May 2015 #78

If more people voted for progressives, they would win more often YoungDemCA May 2015 #118

Just doesn't happen. We're the Cassandras. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #80

I think things have gone too far, TPTB have taken us to the edge & all is NOT well, too many are mother earth May 2015 #81

Such horseshit Egnever May 2015 #86

Well, the oligarchy is buying something. mother earth May 2015 #94

The oligarchy... Egnever May 2015 #95

+1 DCBob May 2015 #105

The "Process" has been hijacked, my friend. That is the problem. nt mother earth May 2015 #110

There are issues with the "Process" but you wont solve them by bashing Democrats. DCBob May 2015 #111

I'm not bashing Democrats, my support is with Bernie Sanders at this time. That's support, not mother earth Jun 2015 #129

First of all, I am not the author of the article in the OP, mother earth May 2015 #109

+1000. Threads like this are pretty sad, actually YoungDemCA May 2015 #117

They'd just throw us under the bus again. L0oniX May 2015 #89

Progressives should be wooing our likely nominee... DCBob May 2015 #97

Oh really? So democracy isn't about voting for who you think will be the best person cui bono May 2015 #99

Sure you can vote for whomever you want.. DCBob May 2015 #100

So you think the party leadership should only listen to its members who agree with them? cui bono May 2015 #101

Not at all.. I think she will try to surround herself with people of all political persuasions. DCBob May 2015 #103

Who am I bashing and where am I bashing them? cui bono Jun 2015 #119

My comments were not meant to refer to you specifically. DCBob Jun 2015 #121

They think we will cave & vote for the annointed one because we have "no other choice." U4ikLefty May 2015 #102

The real Democrat is wooing me... 99Forever May 2015 #112

I'm smitten too Pastiche423 May 2015 #113

.... YoungDemCA May 2015 #116

K&R Scuba Jun 2015 #125

kick beam me up scottie Jun 2015 #131