Reply #15: good post, but progressives are not disenfranchised from the DP [View All]

[expatriot]

Dean's politics may not be progressive but there is little doubt that it were progressives who got him within a hair's width of the nomination, thereby changing the tone of the election and later it is no doubt the progressives who got him the Chair. We may not have nearly complete control over the party as the religious conservatives have over the GOP but there is no doubt that we solidly control the grassroots of the party and and that we can be mobilized when needed to take control of the party apparatus. We very well may need to remind the DLC of that with a massive show of force in both the primaries of 2006 and 2008, what I saying is that we are not an endangered species being silenced by the DLC yet. The DLC is trying to influence the party with communicatiing ideas and influencing policy makers in the party. But we control the grassroots of the party and thereby the policymakers and the candidates. So we still are in the game.