Should the Democrats Become More Progressive?

By U.S. News Staff

November 19, 2010 RSS Feed Print

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The 2010 Republican electoral sweep has left the party and its allies debating how it can recover. Base activists say that President Obama and his party should be more boldly progressive. But centrist Democrats counsel a more moderate course.
Edited by Robert Schlesinger

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Stephanie Taylor
Cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a 600,000-member grassroots group

Democrats lost because they didn't fight strongly enough for popular progressive change—like a public health insurance option and a breakup of the big Wall Street banks that sunk our economy. We commissioned a post-election national poll of those who voted...

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Jim Matheson
Democratic U.S. representative from Utah and the Blue Dog Coalition's cochair for communication

Democrats got whupped on November 2, and anyone who says otherwise is on another planet. In House races, Republicans gained over 60 seats—the second-largest net gain in the chamber by either party since World War II. The carnage was especially severe...

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When Democrats say Progressive, they mean Socialist. Their fascism is creepy to watch. Their efforts to dismantle our economy, social fabric and civil rights are blatant and uninhibited.
There's no way to miss their true intentions toward the United States now. So sure, be more "progressive". It can only serve to clarify the battle between capitalism and socialism, freedom and fascism.
At least people who vote Democrat cannot claim they don't know that the DNC represents the wholesale betrayal of our nation and the American people. If anyone forgets, they have only to go to the airport for a TSA scope n' grope. Nothing says "owned" like passively enduring the public sexual degradation of randomly selected men, women and children at the hands of government thugs.

Elizabeth Conley of VA 8:30AM December 17, 2010

Absolutely Democrats should be even FURTHER left than they already are. After all, the most liberal senator (3 places to the left of the avowed socialist, Bernie Sanders) as president, the 2nd most liberal senator as vice president, the Speaker of the House from the most liberal, gated enclave of San Francisco, has only driven this nation halfway off the cliff in 2 years. They must push even harder to accomplish Saul Alinsky's goal and Cloward-Piven's goal and George Soros's goal of anarchy to pave the way for their designated frontman Urkel Mugabe to impose their utopian world vision for the world because they know best and we peons must be goaded into submission. Besides, conservatives only make up 42% of the American population and liberals 21% (35% are moderates), so it only stands to reason that living in their political bubbles the way they do where they never actually bump into a conservative all day, that they SHOULD govern.
http://eagleinnyc.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/the-war-on-capitalism-march-4-2009-upload-version1.pdf

Eagle in NYC of NY 8:44PM December 01, 2010

The only step left for them to take before reaching the outer limits of left-wing extremism would be to unionize all child molesters. Oops, I should've waited until the lame duck session was over...sorry kids...

SerfOfObama of TX 6:40PM December 01, 2010

Should the Democrats Become More Progressive?

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