Reply #62: We agree [View All]

There's a specific group, "that mirrors the far right", that I refer to as leftists. They don't even claim to be Democrats. Not liberals, not progressives, who can look at all sides of an issue and are willing to look at mistakes as opportunities to change and make progress. But leftists, who would sacrifice progress to stay true to some notion of idealism that the world will never live up to. Who would crucify anybody with a good idea if it didn't live up to their ideology. Who are less than 10% of the population and are as delusional about their mandate as George Bush is. These people would have found fault with any Democratic candidate and it's sad that so many liberal and progressive Democrats get cowed by them.

I've said it before, John Kerry was the most liberal candidate we could ever run and hope to win with. What I saw in this election was the right putting out propaganda, liberals and progressives getting shook by it, and the left opportunistically twisting everything into examples of Democratic sell-outs. They're already doing it with Howard Dean as well.

Liberals and progressives need to know where they stand and what they're fighting for and get focused like a laser. But they've also got to stop letting leftists throw them off track with false crises every time a Democrat tries to discuss a new idea. For example, it really doesn't matter what the hell John Kerry is doing with this election. The ultimate goal is getting paper ballots with any election machine to circumvent fraud in the future. In the scheme of things, this battle for the Presidency isn't worth it if we lose the war of the election machines in the future. Allowing leftists to confuse the issue by launching yet another attack on Democrats diverts liberals and progressives from the problem in front of our face, the election process and the machines. Tough to get somebody's help on one thing when they know you'd burn them at the stake over something else.