Reply #15: nicely said!

[welshTerrier2]

it is truly remarkable that those who profess adherence to the Constitution are labeled as lefties or progressives or extremists and those who allow big money and big corporations to buy legislation and policy are somehow seen as conservatives ...

perhaps we have strayed so far from the Founders' vision that it has indeed become revolutionary to call for what they once did ...

the only disagreement i have with your post is on labeling gay marriage as a "wedge issue" ... here, i think we have to be very careful ...

it may be true, as you suggest, that we should not allow any issue to "derail" us ... but there can be no compromise in the struggle for full human equality ... we can disagree about timing and tactics but Democrats as a party cannot, and should not, ever dismiss full equality as an objective ...