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In reply to the discussion: DU should be collectively ashamed that people here deny that objectification of women is a problem. [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)DU used to bill itself as a "left-wing" discussion board.
That's long past. It got swallowed in the determination to nominate, elect, and then support a neo-liberal Democrat for POTUS. The place has moved steadily to the neo-liberal center, becoming more like the mainstream Democratic Party, ever since.
"Progressive" is a subjective term. On some polls I've seen, it's defined as "extremely liberal." Whatever. "Liberal" can mean anything from communist/socialist, socially liberal, or economically liberal, which are all different things. "Progressive" is a term adopted by the neo-liberal DLC and its PPI, "Progressive Policy Institute."
Anyone can call themselves "liberal" or "progressive" and not be anywhere left of center, let alone the "left-wing" of anything.
The mainstream Democratic Party, despite the vilification by the right-wing, is not left of center, either. It's center-right, in contrast to the far right-wing. So expecting a Democratic discussion board to be left-of-center is not all that realistic.
Of course, there IS a left-wing of the Democratic Party. The left-wing that got thrown under the bus, and marginalized as "fringe," etc. when a neo-liberal Democrat took the WH. Some of us are even still here at DU; there are just plenty more neo-liberals, Reagan Democrats, Blue Dogs, etc. than there used to be, both here and in the party. So DU probably represents the Democratic Party pretty well.
That's what happens when the Republicans step off the right edge of their flat world into insanity; some horrified moderate Republicans switch parties, bringing their moderate Republican ideology and making the center-right contingent larger and more mainstream.
That reality aside, I agree with you. It's embarrassing that any DUers don't think that women being objectified is a problem in our society. That's one concrete example of what is a problem in the Democratic Party as well as society in general.