Reply #96: I see your point [View All]

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And you may be right about the third party advocacy slant of FDL. I am not that familiar with them. I did find them to be on the correct side of the HCR reform debate and know they worked very hard on advocacy to push our bone heads in the Senate and the White House in the direction of the will of the voters.

I think the way to combat the those who are pushing third party as opposed to getting our party back on track is to push our reps in the party towards policies that help the average person. And, when they move the correct direction, we need to message it better. The new push to regulate financial markets needs to be messaged as 'not going to let the crooks on Wall Street and in the Banks continue to steal the money you've all worked for.' We need to raise taxes at the top and we need to frame it as "work has been punished for too long while the wealthy have not been asked to do their part." Otherwise, the right is just going to smash it all to smithereens with their same old saw of 'punishing wealth.'

That gives them less opening to move people towards a 3rd party. Don't ask me how we get those bought out reps to stand up for us. If the take away from the election in MA is read correctly and results in some shift to the left, we'll have a much better chance in November. If, however, the take away is to shift right, we're looking at a slaughter.