The DLC is the Root Of All Evil—It is the Problem Not the Solution

[Placebo]

No?

I can't take it anymore. I really can't. I feel like I am about to burst. I can feel the tears welling up in my eyes and all I want to do is scream.

The DLC will stop at nothing until they have overthrown our party and everything it stands for. They are sneaky, manipulative, conniving politicians who bring absolutely nothing to the table. They are not democrats. They don't deserve the "D" next to their name. Just running as a so-called "democrat" doesn't mean you really are one. You've go to earn it. And you don't earn it at fancy cocktail parties and fundraisers, you earn it by going to the heart of your party, it's true supporters, and doing exactly what they want.

No longer will losers like the Clintons and apologists like Begala and ALL their ilk continue to drag our party down like they have for 15+ years.

People, lets face it, we have an infestation. It's going to take years to repair the damage the DLC has done to our once great political party. Every last one of them needs to be squashed and exterminated like Republicans they are. Because remember, when you attack a DLC-er, you're not attacking a democrat, so don't feel guilty about it or have second thoughts, you are attacking a REPUBLICAN.

The age of the netroots is upon us. But only if we stand up and fight for it.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to The Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[Totally Committed]

1. BRAVO!

Take a bow. I agree 1000%!!!!! Recommended.

Mwah!

TC

[Vickers]

2. "losers like the Clintons"

Oh dear.

[napi21]

3. I disagree, but I don't want you to leave either!

The DLC is a part of the Party. They do have their own agenda, and they're viing for superiority the same as the different parts of the Pub party.

You don't have to agree with them, but they are still Dems, so why not just let them do things their way and we will keep doing things our way? We really CAN all be one Party!

[Totally Committed]

7. I'm sorry, but when you have cancer, it's part of your body,

but 9 out of 10 people would choose to have it taken out of the body instead of trying to live with it. I see the DLC as a cancer on this Party. Cancer of the SOUL of the Party, in fact. It needs to go before we will be well again.

Just my opinion, of course, but there it is.

TC

[napi21]

8. OR you could look at it as the difference between a PC & a MAC.

They're totally different! Don't even like each other much, if at all. There are lots of people who love their PC and would NEVER consider owning a MAC, and there are MAC users who would never consider owning a PC, but the internet gets by just fine. Spats all the time, but in the end, the public internet isn't harmed.

The Dems claim to be the Party of the big tent, yet when there are differences, some or it's members seem to forget that, huh?

[Pierre.Suave]

4. ???

What is the DLC?

[Dave Reynolds]

6. Republicans with a "D" behind their name.

Welcome to DU.

[Dave Reynolds]

5. Oh boy, this will be FUN!

:popcorn:

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. my problem with the DLC

First let me say that not all DLC members are the same. There is a range of opinion. It is not monolithic.

However, the DLC still stands for neoliberal economics and militaristic global hegemony. The are not are not the right-wing of the Republican Party. And their version of these core principles are somewhat more moderate than the Republican Party version. There is no denying that.

Many liberals and progressives make the mistake of thinking that the DLC is "right-wing" the same way the right-wing of the Republican Party is right-wing. This is not correct at all. If you check the voting record of leading DLC members of the House or Senate you will see that their voting records on such matters as pro-choice, gay rights or other social issues are about the same as the voting record of leading liberal/progressive members of Congress.

My main problems with the DLC are:

1. The attempt to marginalize progressive voices within the Democratic Party and to represent mainstream opinion regarding trade issues, single-payer universal health care and matters of war and peace as extreme positions. When the evidence shows that it is they if anyone who is out of the mainstream on some very important core issues. When they repeat GOP talking points--bashing progressive Democrats they hurt the entire party including themselves and drive the range of discussion farther and farther to the right; not into the mainstream.

2. They embrace an albeit modified form of neoliberal economic ideology and believe it should be imposed on the third world who do not want it because of the devastating consequences it has on the third world fueling inflation, dispossessing the peasantry from their land--creating a new commercial class for the benefit of the few at the cost of the vast overwhelming majority. The only place where the Orwellian named "free trade" is less popular than the rust belt of northeastern United States is in the developing world -- the very people who would be the greatest theoretical beneficiaries.

3. On foreign policy they just don't understand that the world does not want and the American people do not an imperial America that is in a never ending series of military conflicts while the social contract and social fabric of American society disintegrates on an over-bloated military budget that as as former President Eisenhower described as "so wasteful it weakens the nation". I am very much afraid that America could be led astray into an even more disastrous imperial war in the Middle East or elsewhere not by a Republican President but by a DLC-type Democrat President.