Reply #19: Definitely liberals, but this is a depressing poll

[UdoKier]

But you've pointed out one of our biggest weaknesses: constituencies that often care strictly about their own issues to the detriment of all the others. I can't count the timesw I've talked to gays who get all shrill saying "I want my same-sex marriage equal rights NOW!" (apparently forgetting that just a generation ago, gays in most places had to slink covertly to go to a gay bar) or African-Americans who want their interests represented, but resent the gays presenting gay rights as a civil rights issue (when of course, it is one.)

The democratic party hasn't done much for unions lately as far as I can see, or women. Hell, that's another problem, what recent achievements do we have to point to? Welfare deform? NAFTA? Family Leave? That tiny increase in the minimum wage almost a decade ago?

It's so sad that the best our party can promise us now is to slightly slow down the GOP steamroller of destruction, rather than any actual progress.