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In reply to the discussion: Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans [View all]elljay
(1,178 posts)You are using charts that make comparisons, without taking into account to what or to whom they are comparing. As our Democratic Party has moved to the right, and the Republican Party has moved to the extreme right, it doesn't take much to be on the "liberal" side. The fact that a Senator voted a certain way as compared to a relatively conservative group of Senators on a series of very selective bills that hit the floor of the Senate doesn't make one a liberal on the broad spectrum of ideas. Sorry, but many of Hillary Clinton's (and Obama's) policies are remarkably similar to those of Richard Nixon and the Republican Party of the 60s. That is not liberal to me and to millions of Democrats and former Democrats who are sickened by our party's drift to the right. Please own up to the fact that she is a moderate, as she has admitted herself, and stop trying to tell those of us who are true progressives that we are don't understand our own beliefs.