absolutely in the noxious wake of Ronnie Reagan. People like Bill Clinton thought they had to do it to win, and so they did. In fact, I have come to believe that Bill Clinton's impeachment woes might have been less if his friends on the Dem side didn't feel so shafted by NAFTA and so forth. Just a theory.
But here's how the theory plays out. Obama, despite not being always as Progressive as we would have liked, won his first election on an overtly Progressive or at least implied Progressive platform, despite how he played it out. In fact, that's what is so infuriating about him - he one with a mandate that never was entirely used.
Go forward a little, then there is Occupy Wall Street - pretty successful, although way on the radical side.
Then Bernie Sanders!!! Who would have imagined that this guy with almost zero name recognition when he started out would do even remotely so well, win or lose? Who would have thought he's remain competitive and raise so much money!!!!!
His campaign has prove several things. Firstly that you can do well by running on honesty and authenticity. That you can be an avowed Progressive, even a Socialist, and people will still like your campaign and your platform and your policies. And that you can raise money, competitive money, without relying on Wall Street and other vested interest, big money donors.
Wow! The time is ripe for a Progressive revolution, no matter what you call it or who runs it! Even Trump flirts with Progressive and Populist ideas, and may run on them when it suits him, if the Party will in the end let him.
NOW IS THE TIME for the Democratic Party to wake up from its post Ronald Reagan trauma and seize the day, the Progressive day.
The powers that be tiptoe around this. They can't seem to believe their eyes just yet.
But they better get with this program, embrace the Bernie supporters and charge full speed ahead.
if they don't, Trump is going to steal their revolutionary thunder, and he is going to beat us at the polls.
I won't care so much if he does, now that several countries are actually offering us refugee status.
Seize the day Democrats, or be buried by it.
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