The decline of the left... [View All]

[kentuck]

There are few leftists in the Republican Party anymore. Their Party has ethnically-cleansed itself of all liberal tendencies. Most of the liberals and the left-leaning voters were left to the Democratic Party.

But the "liberal-left" is very weak, even within the Democratic Party. There was a time when they drove the progressive legislation within the Party. No more. They have joined the DLC and the more moderate elements of the Democratic Party in order to re-gain power from the Republicans.

However, the Democratic Party slogan during the last campaign was "Yes, we can!" It has since evolved into "No, we can't!" We have to compromise with the right-wing fascists if we hope to make any progress at all. Otherwise, we will lose our power in the next election.

The left has lost respect within its own Party. They are a minority that has to be ignored. They are a fringe of the Party. But they have nowhere else to go. So the Democratic Party continues to slide further and further to the right.