Reply #95: yes they do [View All]

[sandnsea]

The mainstream Republicans give the impression that the fundamentalists are extremists. They don't run on a Christian Coalition platform of teaching only creationism and making divorce illegal or something. They temper that right wing message and then implement it under the radar or by going through local school boards and such. They are part of the Republican Party, but they don't expect their platform to be front and center and they don't criticize their own party when they don't put their entire platform front and center.

Our left is extremes of leftism that gets labeled as the Democratic Party as a whole. Extremes of leftism being everything from single payer health care to pure socialism. And the not so far left uses the socialists anti-Democratic message to beat up on the Democrats. They don't sit under the big tent at all. They will not help us take issues like health care and put it out in a way that will allow the mainstream to support it in order to make progress. We're not going to revolutionize this country in one election. The left needs to be more like the Christian Coalition and help do it a bit at a time, over 20 years even, like they did. If we don't, they're going to win.