Reply #9: Uh?

[Chulanowa]

So what you're saying basically is, "Don't question the party even when they make stupid decisions, because OMG TEH TERRORISTS OMG TEH REPUBLICANS might somehow benefit?

Look buddy, if the Democrats keep trying to appease the right, the republicans are going to win anyway, just by sticking with what they've had for the last thirty years. Why? Because the Democrats will be the ones driving the progressives away, the Conservatives aren't going to vote for a Democrat, and the people "on the fence" will go republican if they want "conservative" anyway.

The key to winning is to make sure we're different from the republicans, to take stands against their positions, to assert Democrat-Progressive ties, and to pursue an actual liberal agenda.

If the Republicans suddenly swing hard to the left, they'll just crash and burn. Like I said, they don't have to do anything to have a chance. So long as the Democrats keep trying to out-Right them, they've got it good. Further a Republican swing to the left on ANY issue would result in a huge split in their party - the one and only thing that unites the Christofascists, the Corporocrats, The Home Front Generals, the Pants-Pissers and the Racists that make up their party is a collective hatred for the left.

...That said I'm all for a Republican leftward swing. Hell. Might be just what the Democrats need, since the party policy seems to be more and more "act like the opposition"