Reply #124: You should this great post: 'There are NO "Fringe Leftists" posting at DU.' [View All]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1570899&mesg_id=1570899

There are NO "Fringe Leftists" posting at DU.

I have been here daily since February 2001,
and have NEVER read a serious post from a DUer advocating for
the confiscation of all Personal Property,
and having the citizens formed into Collectives to work for the government.
THAT is a "Fringe Left" position.

There ARE some "Fringe leftists" in the USA, but they are a very small minority,
and you won't see them here at DU, or with a voice in the National Media.

Our Media & The Large Corporations who fund it would be happy to have America believe that mainstream FDR/LBJ values
are "The Fringe Left", and are equally "balanced" by the Far Right Tea Party,
because THAT would move the mythological "Center" FAR to the Right.
You will even see that myth propagated at DU.

What you see at DU are the Mainstream-Center Pro-Working Class FDR/LBJ Democrats
advocating FOR traditional Democratic Values.

Attempts to marginalize FDR/LBJ Democrats as the "Fringe Left" only helps move this country further to The RIGHT.
Attempts to draw a False Equivalency between FDR/LBJ Democrats and the Tea Party only helps move this country to The RIGHT.


The following are Traditional Mainstream Democratic Party Values:

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