Reply #8: The "New Democrats" are old pablum. [View All]

They are intent on making the Democratic Party a pale imitation of the other corporate party.

They scorn ideals, principles, and ethics because they lack them. They are eager to "compromise" with the Republicans and corporate America in the name of being "electable". Never mind that their "compromises" cost people's lives.

They are eager to forgive the transgressors as being "practical", "electable", "realists", when they vote with the Republicans. Then they castigate the "leftists", "radicals", and "idealists", as being "traitors" to the party. They are oblivious to the irony of what they are saying.

They like to think of themselves as part of the "majority" without acknowledging that the "majority" usually has resisted change and progress. The "majority" of the nation was against the revolution that made it. The "majority" was against the civil rights movement as being too "extreme". The "majority" was for the Vietnam war. The "majority" was against women's suffrage. The "majority" was for the invasion of Iraq.

They are the opportunists and time-servers whose only interest is in "winning".