Reply #136: the problem

[ithacan]

is that the DLC is funded by right wingers and by corporations. That is their major source of funding, as documented above.

That is not bashing, it is laying out facts.

The issue for me is not Kerry, who I will vote for without any major problems (as long as he keeps fighting Bush).

The issue is not whether the Democratic Party will remain a party with a variety of viewpoints, a big tent. In a two party system that is unavoidable.

The issue is whether one particular group (DLC) that is founded by and dependent on huge amounts of money coming from proven right wing sources, as well as from the same corporations that are controlling the Republican Party, will succeed in taking over the party and purging anyone who does not toe their conservative line by setting up a "litmus test" for democratic candidates, something the DLC does do, and by characterizing anyone who calls them on their corporate funders as illegitimate.

That does not seem to be a healthy situation.