[The Red Zone]

Republicans drew off the cream of your crop decades ago, feckless fools.

And that's a shame, in a sense. They were old style liberals. They didn't move so much as their party did. I lament the passing of Democrats from relevancy, not because I believe in most of their agenda, but because the political system needs competition to discourage dishonesty. If everyone is a Republican, where's the competition?

[Stultis]

I lament the passing of Democrats from relevancy, not because I believe in most of their agenda, but because the political system needs competition to discourage dishonesty.

Actually, despite my bluster upthread, I agree. But with their willing embrace of clintonism, I suspect it will be a solid decade at least before the dims move seriously toward reform.

Their only hope in the short term is if the Green party grows to a point where it attracts extremists away from the dims (the demise of the dims began IMO when they stopped marginalizing and started embracing the hard left) but given the entrenchment of the two party system in American that is unlikely. In fact growth in the Green party will draw dims further to the left as they try to attract members back.

[JoJo Gunn]

There is no competition now. Leftists are emotional and intellectual cripples, irrational and regressive animals.