Reply #18: I don't know the answer to that.

[paulk]

Gore/Clinton started the DLC as a response to the defeats of the Mondale/Dukakis era, where it was seen that the party had moved too far to the left - it was also seen that the power of the traditional Democratic support groups was waning, and was not enough to fund the ever larger amounts of money needed to campaign. Corporate money was needed, and therefore courted.

When the Democratic Party went with the money it was the beginnings of where we are at now - where winning the election is more important than being right on the issues (from a liberal perspective) - this has allowed more and more extremism on the right - who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in - no matter how misguided. We are countering them by moving toward the center, rather than moving toward the left - which, in the long run, moves the party in the wrong direction.

We need liberal policies, imo, to get us out of the mess we're in - and we need a leader who can articulate those policies and convince the electorate of their rightness. No easy task, considering the media is mostly controlled by the other side.


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