Reply #22: Yep, it takes a swinging set to use a DLC avatar ANYPLACE on DU. [View All]

Warning rant to follow. Stop here if you don't want to hear it...






I'm not a fan of the DLC in any way, but I also have to confess that by local standards I have been defined as a "BAD Democrat" (it is rather like being a bad dog, I suspect...) I do not meet their moral purity standards, it would seem.

My association with local Labor and my open postings on a local GOP dominated political blog have rendered me unfit for membership in the local liberal cadre, I guess. (The GOP knows who I am and they see me as a Dem--so go figure!) Oh--and did I remember to mention my local work for other BAD Dems like the State's Attorney and specific County Board members? Yeah, THAT is a problem too...

Anyhow, I will offer up my observation from the ranks of the disenfranchised that just showing up is no longer enough to qualify anyone as a Dem, it would seem. Whatever party anyone self IDs is not a factor in today's climate.

Sorry, Lisa, I know you were pointing out something unusual rather than offering comment on their politics, but I gotta tell you the moral purity stuff I'm seeing in the Dem party as a whole is creeping me out big time. I have busted my ass for years for social justice issues and now my credibility is in question because a handful of idiots has taken exception to what I'm out there talking about.

DU is about as left as it gets, and it is self selecting. I choose to come here and I choose to be active. I honestly think the Dem party is gonna self destruct unless we stop eating our young.



Laura