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In reply to the discussion: Voting third party is irredeemably hopeless. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)The most notable example was in the lead-up to McGovern's fiasco. The Party was changed quite a bit, but the focus was on McGovern instead of the policies and programs of the Democratic Party. The GOPers changed their party over a nearly 50 year period, and turned the corner with Reagan. Since then, it has become cold steel hard and ideologically-bound. I don't advocate that, and it is not necessary. But it took them 50 years. We don't have to take that long, but it requires a lot of grass-roots organizing in a new era where such notions are manifestly obsolete; if the "social media" and its inevitable successor develops a mass, community-oriented movement which can LEGITIMIZE a party platform which can be communicated, fine. I just don't know how it is done anymore.
One thing for sure: If Democrats continue to run from labels, the GOPers WILL label us nonetheless. If the Democratic Party continues to bare its throat to corporate interests, they will tear it out. There is no where to run from the GOP. So let your freak flag fly, and put them on the run!