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In reply to the discussion: I am no longer a Democrat. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)The Democratic Party should be an umbrella over the DLC wing and over a new, progressive wing. Occupy the Democratic Party, Herbal Tea Party, whatever. Fight it out with the corporatists in the primaries.
DU could help by adding a subsite as you suggested, hopefully not PU (lol). Keeping it under the parent Democratic Underground site would be ideal. The Greatest page and others would be at the larger Party level, so our community would remain unified as much as possible. I would also think the DLC/PPI wing of the party should be under a subsite, rather than running the whole place.
This kind of approach would avoid the issue of not advocating for third party candidates, a line in the sand Skinner has drawn. And it would leverage existing infrastructure, infrastructure that by all rights should not belong to the corporatists.
Let's kick this meme around, it'll need some refinement but seems like the correct approach.