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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 74867" data-attributes="member: 35">When the most popular politician in the country is a progressive and a majority of Americans support his positions, can you really say it&#039;s progressives who don&#039;t want to win?&nbsp; It reminds me of a Bernie Sanders quote.&nbsp; He said &quot;Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”&nbsp; And that&#039;s just it.&nbsp; As long as that corporate cash is rolling in, they would rather lose to a Republican than win with a progressive.Why else is fighting for a living wage, single payer, free college, and getting money out of politics considered &quot;whiny?&quot;&nbsp; When people wag their finger at people for being pure, it only shows what soulless hacks they are.&nbsp; Dean also neglected to mention his work for a healthcare lobbying firm.&nbsp; When a politician gives lip service to single payer without actually supporting it, you can usually find big pharma somewhere in their back pocket.I love how the purity of Bernie supporters supposedly comes from a place of privilege, yet his entire platform is based on helping the underprivileged.&nbsp; Corporate Democrats, on the other hand, have supported NAFTA, TPP, stagnant wages, no public option, and a right wing healthcare plan that left 29 million people uninsured.&nbsp; Not to mention bailing out Wall Street on the tax payers dime.&nbsp; Yet they&#039;re manipulating people into taking their anger out on the disenfranchised who have been screwed over by those policies.&nbsp; Republicans may be extremist douche bags, but an embrace of neoliberalism by Democrats is what&#039;s pushed Republicans so far to the right.Now they&#039;re using identity politics to woo SJWs.&nbsp; Criticisms of black or female corporate Democrats gets you labeled &quot;racist&quot; and &quot;sexist,&quot; even though progressives criticize all corporate Democrats.&nbsp; They&#039;re so transparent in their bullshit, but there are people who will eat it up.&nbsp; Between all of their projection, hypocrisy, corruption, corporatism, and militarism, the Democratic Party has become a socially liberal extension of the Republican Party.&nbsp; Of course, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman saying there is &quot;no litmus test&quot; on issues such as abortion, they&#039;re willing to sell out those social liberal values as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 74867, member: 35"] When the most popular politician in the country is a progressive and a majority of Americans support his positions, can you really say it's [I]progressives[/I] who don't want to win? It reminds me of a Bernie Sanders quote. He said "Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.” And that's just it. As long as that corporate cash is rolling in, they would rather lose to a Republican than win with a progressive. Why else is fighting for a living wage, single payer, free college, and getting money out of politics considered "whiny?" When people wag their finger at people for being pure, it only shows what soulless hacks they are. Dean also neglected to mention his work for a healthcare lobbying firm. When a politician gives lip service to single payer without actually supporting it, you can usually find big pharma somewhere in their back pocket. I love how the purity of Bernie supporters supposedly comes from a place of privilege, yet his entire platform is based on helping the underprivileged. Corporate Democrats, on the other hand, have supported NAFTA, TPP, stagnant wages, no public option, and a right wing healthcare plan that left 29 million people uninsured. Not to mention bailing out Wall Street on the tax payers dime. Yet they're manipulating people into taking their anger out on the disenfranchised who have been screwed over by those policies. Republicans may be extremist douche bags, but an embrace of neoliberalism by Democrats is what's pushed Republicans so far to the right. Now they're using identity politics to woo SJWs. Criticisms of black or female corporate Democrats gets you labeled "racist" and "sexist," even though progressives criticize [I]all [/I]corporate Democrats. They're so transparent in their bullshit, but there are people who will eat it up. Between all of their projection, hypocrisy, corruption, corporatism, and militarism, the Democratic Party has become a socially liberal extension of the Republican Party. Of course, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman saying there is "no litmus test" on issues such as abortion, they're willing to sell out those social liberal values as well. [/QUOTE]

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