Reply #43: Oh, sure. A party can be more or less swapped out. [View All]

[BzaDem]

I would be happy if the Democratic party became more progressive.

The problem is that this doesn't happen when the vast majority of the party is satisfied. If there were actually a constituency for a much more progressive Democratic party from within its ranks, it would become more progressive.

But that is not the case at this point. Obama ran on bipartisanship at every chance he got (within the primary no less). He ran on escalating in Afghanistan, he ran on looking forward not backward, etc. The candidate who ran on the opposite on all those things got 1% of the vote or something -- and that's with the caucuses that greatly empower the base over the moderates.