Reply #29: And there you have it, in black and white [View All]

[BootinUp]

or whatever colored print you like.

The "professional left" doesn't WANT to be at the table where they might have to compromise. They want to be noisemakers on the outside.

This is basically what I have said in various posts here and there.

It is also counter to the average Americans common sense on how government can be effective. How do we know this? Because Presidents are very often elected on the presumption or promise they will bring the factions of various sides together to make reform happen. Clinton and Obama both preached this kind of promise, even Dumya with his compassionate conservative lie, was trying to appeal to this basic idea.

When progressives sabotage that basic idea, they harm the Democrats at the ballot box, they lose independents who wanted reform. (HAVE YOU CHECKED THE POLLS LATELY?) Now calm down liberals, I fault the other side to a much larger degree. But it is more difficult to make that case when our side is also seen as not willing to resolve issues in a constructive way.

eom.