Reply #114: Politics are not black and white

[Spike89]

Geez, to hear some people on here, you'd think progressives had been firmly in control for at least a generation. Politically, we've skewed far right of the general populace since at least 1980 and just came out of 8 years of Bush. We did NOT gain a majority of progressives in the last election--we purposefully ran blue dogs in places where they had a chance to unseat rabid dog repugs. You can say that they (the Blue Dogs) are "just as bad as republicans" but that isn't true.

You don't repair 30 years of political damage in one election, and you don't face a constant, smooth curve of improvement either. To get us back to a left-leaning political environment will sadly take most of a generation.