Reply #67: Fine, just don't reserve the right to say who isn't a Democrat

[dolstein]

There are many DU'ers who go out of the way to brand the DLC as a bunch of DINOs. Never mind the fact that DLC members have been elected to office in all regions of the country and at all levels of the government. Never mind the fact that rank and file Democrats have nominated DLC members for president in each of the last for presidential primary seasons. None of that matters to these people, who apparently believe that time stopped in 1972 and that everything that happened in the Democratic Party since is some unholy abberation. (Apparently, these same people must believe that time started in 1972 also, because they conveniently forget all the great Democrats before then who wouldn't pass their ideological litmus tests.) I don't have a problem with these people claiming to be Democrats, although I wish they would actually support Democratic elected officials one in a while rather than repeatedly trashing them. But my biggest problem is their repeated efforts to define what a Democrat is so narrowly that only a left-winger gets included. I find this arrogant, not to mention counterfactual.