re: #17 EiMitch

Yeah, sure. Good luck with that.

But they are dead serious about it. Their choice of constituency may be unsustainable, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a calculated decision. Gerrymandering to empower a fanatical minority isn’t necessarily complacency.

I don’t agree, because election cowardice isn’t the Democrats’ only problem. Not by a longshot. Besides, what do you think motivated that cowardice? Here’s a hint: there is a reason politicians don’t want to leave office, and it has nothing to do with their supposed beliefs.

I find just linking to Holder to be unnecessarily obtuse, can you please just say what you feel is their biggest weakness?

The Democrats are a flawed party with lots of weaknesses that need to be corrected and we need to be more serious about it, it I feel like trying to majorly overhaul our party, at exactly the moment the GOP is on the cusp of imploding due to demographics and internal inconsistencies (the religious right wants a theocracy and the establishment types and oligarchy) is going against that old saying of how you don’t interrupt an opponent while he is committing a blunder.

Thus I am for ever gradual progressive change to make our candidates better representations of the Progressive ideal but trying to push all the old guard out at once is just going to end up throwing seats to a Republicans at exactly the wrong time.