Reply #16: Oh, he accomplishes plenty..... [View All]

[blindpig]

His presence (and a handful like him) in an otherwise reactionary party gives hope to those of the left who cannot conceive of politics outside of the two party system, he keeps them hanging on. Without those eternally hopeful lefties the Democratic Party would be in deep shit, they aren't a majority but their absence would lose elections.

Not to say that I think he's a bad guy, he's a very good guy, by Democratic standards, I strongly supported him in '04. He believes what he's doing, but I no longer do, the party will not move left in any significant manner. That is the lesson of '08, which we are learning to our sorrow.