Reply #81: Green and Kucinich people are at PDA.

[madfloridian]

They used to be the Green Donkey. However, they did huge damage by attacking Howard Dean when he said the same thing he always said about Iraq and leaving there. It actually hurt the party movement and slowed down progress while all the Democrats fought with each other.

It hurt Howard Dean, it hurt the party, and it hurt even their group...it hurt all of us.

I don't like compromise at all, but compromise when millions of people are involved is a fact of life. The DLC has not really tried to compromise much at all, and that worries me. So we have them on the right. If the PDA and other groups are not going to compromise either, you have both ends and the middle of the party weakened. I put NARAL in that group, though I am part of them. I will fight with them.

It worries me a lot what is going to happen. Both ends are too weak to survive without the middle, but both ends are willing to weaken the middle for their own issues. If they all do what they can do best, and not attack, that is one thing.

It is complicated, and to come here to DU and see so many threads advocating splitting off when new leadership just began in February....well, it is discouraging.

It happens when there is a success by the party, like fundraising up.