Reply #104: You assume much

[blindpig]

Particularly that the support of the right to own firearms is the province of "2nd Amenders and the "middle" Dems". I would note that union activists, socialists of various stripe, the true left, the revolutionary left, by and large insist upon the right to defend one's self against all who would do harm, including the government. They would insist upon the right to put food on the table. They would insist upon the right to be left the fuck alone.

The pretend left of the Democratic Party with it's gaggle of boutique issues is hardly left at all. The economic issue is paramount, it's what being "left" is all about. Yet it gets lip service at best from the Democratic Party, when the party is not stabbing the working class in the back, that is. And then we get a bunch of peripheral issues thrown up as world shaking, do or die! Small wonder half of the electorate has thrown up it's hands in disgust.