State of the Democratic Party

[Belsnickel]

(11-17-2016, 08:58 AM)djam Wrote: I would say the best thing for democrats now is to just start being honest and open. Stop lying to their people. Stop paying protesters to attack and aggravate people who disagree with them and pay the media to make it look like the opposition who creates it. The wikileaks emails uncovered what a lot of people already know. Its time for the moderates like Jim Webb to distance themselves from the extreme faction of that party, who has taken over and destroyed it. The dem party is no longer the party of JFK. If they were they would not have to cheat to win. JFK would no doubt have to run as republican now. No doubt.

Look at the dem reaction to this election loss folks. Look at whats happening around the country. Is that going to land you more working class voters? No, its just going to turn them off an you'll end up with a bunch of communitist party converts and socialist party converts, which both go completely against our constitution. Those parties have infiltrated the dem party enough already. I would push them back out of it.

Stop politicizing climate change, and insulting people who are skeptics. Accept that the science is far from settled at this point and stop pointing your fingers at everyone. It's a turn off to people.

The dems have a lot of fixing to do, and I sincerely wish you well with it. I hope the good folks get the bad ones out and return that party to at least semi-respectable. Our country will be better off for it. One thing that would help all democrats is to just simply open their minds. They are the most closed-minded, intolerant people our nation has ever seen on a political scale, especially the young ones.

You seem to have some misconceptions. JFK was the most liberal POTUS we have had since FDR. Based on his positions on congressional actions at the time he was in office, he was very liberal. We've actually seen the Democrats in the Oval Office trend more conservative since JFK, and GOP presidents as well for that matter.

Yes, this reaction to the election is concerning. I was concerned with protestors against Bush and the directions they took, and then those against Obama who burned a lynched effigy of him, and now this. It is completely appropriate to express concerns, and even protest, but both sides have been taking it too far. Let's not pretend that the left has a monopoly on astroturf asshattery.

Climate change is happening. Whether we have a major impact or not, the same things that we do that could potentially impact climate change in a negative way also hurt our environment in other ways and are often fiscally inefficient and unsustainable. It is good stewardship of our budget and our world to take measures to help the environment whether or not it is tied to climate change. Yes, it should stop being politicized, and I think one of the biggest mistakes of the past 30 years has been tying environmental stewardship to climate change/global warming.