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In reply to the discussion: In 18 years since Naders run, what has been accomplished by attacking the Dem party from the left? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Too many of those who criticized from within(and were always ignored)ended up drifting away from the party because they and what they cared about were kept in the cold.
We never swung over any large bloc of voters to our right in 1992 or 1996, btw. Overall, from 1988 to 1996, our presidential vote increased only from 46% to 49%. Sorry, but that is a trivial gain. And it wasn't enough for us to hold Congress in '94 or take it back in '96 or '98, when we should have been able to do so in at least one of those elections.
Our goal should be to win the support of people we COULD make common cause with-not people who hate most of what we stand for and will only vote for us if we promise to tell everyone else to shut up and go away on their behalf.