re: #18 jamesfirecat

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

For all of the democrats fronting about looking out for us, they’re just as beholden to special interests as republicans. I linked to Holder as an example. He refused to prosecute a single person who crashed the economy, nor any exec in subsequent financial scandals.

The point is that plenty of democrat supporters feel betrayed, not just disappointed.

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.

Emphasis added to your biggest assumption. Yes, the republican’s strategy is unsustainable. But its not going to fail them this soon. Not even close.

Not to mention, how exactly will a changing of the guard in the democrats stop the republicans from imploding if such an implosion is as imminent as you believe?

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.

Throwing seats to the republicans? Like the old guard just did anyway? And in 2010? And they didn’t exactly regain lost ground in 2012.

The tea party’s takeover of the republican party in 2010 didn’t throw seats to the democrats. The teabaggers took control. And they’ve only gotten stronger since. On what grounds do you base your belief that opposite results will happen to democrats if they get a surge of fresh blood?

Your argument is based on alot of assumptions, chief among them being that the teabaggers are on their last legs. No they aren’t. Not yet. I’d like to believe otherwise, but thats not what the evidence is saying. And when it does happen much later, (assuming republicans don’t change their strategy in time) a boat rocking amongst democrats won’t save republicans from self-inflicted wounds.