Reply #30: Didn't mean to be flippant. That is a crucial issue

[Tom Rinaldo]

I was commenting on that yesterday on another thread. My focus simply wasn't on individual issues for this specific OP so I made no real effort to cover them well. There is no mention of either of our wars, or environmental concerns either, and that matters a great deal to me also. It was a haphazzard list used to illustrate that the dynamic I was writing about was not only driven by the specific issues, but reflected a deeper underlying relationship between progressives and the rest of the Democratic Party.