Reply #15: Democrats haven't lost a damn thing except... [View All]

[TreasonousBastard]

the segregationists we lost years ago.

What sorry scribblers like this one refuse to admit is that DEMOCRATS HAVE NO "BASE." As much as some would love to think of us as the party of Rooseveltian socialism, it just ain't so. We are a hodgepodge of factions that can't agree among ourselves just who we are.

I used to lice in a place where there were actually three Democratic parties, all trying to get, or retain, or regain, power. None of them gave the tiniest shit about policies, Iraq, Bush, or anything else but getting elected and grabbing county money. The primarily Black and Hispanic "base" of the most densely populated part of the county couldn't give a rat's ass about impeachment, and were divided over war funding. They wanted jobs, or at least a chance to steal along with the big boys.

The Democratic parties in that place, all controlled by bosses or would-be bosses, had absolutely nothing in common with Democrats in Greenwhich Village just across the river. Or San Francisco, or Miami.

So, that's who we are-- everybody. And, unlike Republicans, we cannot be stuck in a box or controlled by any "base."

That is both our strength and our weakness