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In reply to the discussion: Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans [View all]harun
(11,348 posts)173. Which is why policy SUCKS
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Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans [View all]
imagine2015
May 2016
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Then Chomsky can feel free to start his own party that reflects his views. This isn't rocket science
Trust Buster
May 2016
#1
All you won is the probable fracture and destruction of the party and the country. Some win.
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#166
Don't spend those "winnings," they may be confiscated and your candidate may be shown the door.
leveymg
May 2016
#178
Time for loyal center/right Democrats that own the party to throw Chomsky under the bus
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#71
Yep. . .party over principle. Join the Party then you can criticize it
Feeling the Bern
May 2016
#186
The So called Democrats won the right to rule over the Democratic Party
All in it together
May 2016
#104
"Our party"? Do you have as much influence and control as big business and Wall Street in the party
imagine2015
May 2016
#12
He is expressing Truth to Power. I pity you that that concept is so foreign to you.
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#169
Wake up and smell the divided "our party". The leadership of "our party" has been
rhett o rick
May 2016
#185
A lot of people have been trying to tell and say that or have even many times already said it
nolabels
May 2016
#38
I've said it many times here as well and yes it's obvious but no one in the media or
onecaliberal
May 2016
#70
Sort of like when a lot of the younger people told the party we want more than one choice
nolabels
May 2016
#76
First time I'm actually glad to reside in a red state. ...I don't have to vote for the flip side of
SammyWinstonJack
May 2016
#86
Isn't it about integrity of ones self or not to let Trump get the go. Pretty hard decision.
bkkyosemite
May 2016
#139
Today's mainstream Democrats have no interest in fair wages, health care for all or
dflprincess
May 2016
#30
Says a lack of action by mainstream Democrats. They don't even talk about these issues
dflprincess
May 2016
#49
Pray tell me, how could you get Lieberman, et al, to vote for single payer? The public option?
CrowCityDem
May 2016
#109
They fought for the ACA because it was a way to make sure the insurance cartels remain in
Gene Debs
May 2016
#122
Affording coverage is not the same as affording care, as all too many of these feel-good
Gene Debs
May 2016
#183
The Economic Bill of Rights is a good deal more than fair wage and health care
dflprincess
May 2016
#195
Noam is correct, of course. The Sanders Campaign is the last, best hope to save FDR's Party...
NewImproved Deal
May 2016
#26
Anything that stops people from voting for liberal Democrats only helps RW Republicans.
baldguy
May 2016
#34
Academics study, understand, and explain. They aren't there to lead cheers for "the party.'
Ed Suspicious
May 2016
#39
We legalized gay marriage, marijuana, passed most of a proper health care plan...
joshcryer
May 2016
#36
Harry Enten" Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal (FiveThirtyEight)
LiberalFighter
May 2016
#67
Legislators like to pretend we live in a center-right country. That's just not true ...
Scuba
May 2016
#84
Whether or not he's registered to vote has no bearing on whether his statement is true. But then,
Gene Debs
May 2016
#124
Can somebody link to this wonderful pre-DLC pre-Clinton platform the DINOS ruined?
whatthehey
May 2016
#92
If you want to address the problem of a "lack of excitement for her," there'll have to be
Gene Debs
May 2016
#146
In the sense that more republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 than Democrats,
pampango
May 2016
#112
Can we ever get through a Chomsky post w/o the words corporatist or neoliberal???
Gomez163
May 2016
#125
compared to where conservatives are...I'll take moderate republicans....they are the ones who
beachbum bob
May 2016
#128
At what point in time were elected Democrats much further left than they are now? n/t
hughee99
May 2016
#142
I agree with Chomsky. Which leads me to ask the GOP trolls here wtf they're problem with Hillary is?
tenderfoot
May 2016
#189