Reply #16: Have you ever thought to yourself, "I wish we could just ignore the gay issues this cycle and talk [View All]

[Marr]

about the economy", or something along those lines?

I think that's what it's like for "moderates", only they wish we could ignore most of the things more liberal people consider important.

I always get the feeling from people who call themselves moderate that they're really only liberal on social issues. They aren't all that concerned with labor or foreign policy, and feel that those fights are keeping them from achieving their goals. So they argue with people on the left, trying to convince them to just shut-up, that everything will be better if they don't push their own issues.

So I think that's why there's something a divide in the way the two groups attack one another. People who are farther to the left are saying, "let's do all of this", while people more to the right are saying, "let's just do these few things". One group feels betrayed, the other feels that they're being sabotaged by idealists.