Reply #25: the DLC relentlessly pushes "Republican" policies

[MisterP]

any exceptions are strictly so people keep voting for them, on the grounds that they're "a little bit better" or "a first step"--even if that never comes to pass. They tell us to "work within the party" if we object, but that's only given us 23 years of the DLC and conservative Democrats who continue selling the country to the rich, turning over elections and media to the rich, walk-on-water personality cults substituting for good policy, and the Nazi-inspired National Security Doctrine that the masses are the enemy and that Amerika is the only force preventing Soviet/Caliphate global destruction.
To mask this, they support abortion (not so much nowadays), fighting global warming, humanitarian rather than resource intervention, gay marriage--solely so we keep continuing to vote for them. The gains are real, but so are the losses. Alternatively, they just howl that something's a "losing issue" (even if the polls say otherwise), or simply demand our worship.
As Democrats and as liberals on one issue, they can also count on far less opposition than they would as Republicans: had McCain passed "McCaincare," we would never call it McCaincare, and relentlessly point out that it's a giveaway to the insurers, and repeatedly pointed out that few are taking advantage of "the good bits," and that it was written by insurers, and that it's blatantly unconstitutional; we'd have sent Vinson $500 in flowers and praised him as one of the few "good Reagan appointees" who saw through the "it's a tax break" BS and saw that it was nothing at all like Social Security. But if Obama passed it, ohhhh, then it HAS to be liberal because he's a liberal (regardless of any evidence) and we all believed in '08 and '09 that he'd fight the corporations (look how he treated BP and Goldman Sachs!), so it HAS to be constitutional, and it gives everyone healthcare, and then people drag out 1790s bills (though the Alien and Sedition Acts are never cited as precedent in the blogosphere for some reason).
tl;dr: they screech whenever someone says they're like the GOP, and point to their few differences to rebut the strawman "there's no difference"--but their stated goal is to adopt GOP policies...