This week's Isthmus has an interesting and noteworthy editorial on the Dane County Democratic Party and Progressive Dane's prolonged, systematic use of the organization. It even goes into the history of the Democratic Party's problems with far-left infiltration and how that's been dealt with before.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Night of the Living Danes
posted by Adam Lang at 8:06 PM
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2 Comments:
You are one bad hack. Do you know that David Blaska is a long-time Republican? And you're agreeing with him that we should purge progressives from the party?
You conservative Dems and Republicans have far too much in common. Why don't you just jump ship and join the GOP?
I don't care that David Blaska is a long-time Republican – he has a valid point. And I'm pretty sure he's not saying the Democratic Party should purge progressives as you suggest.
He is, though, saying that third parties ought not hijack the Democratic Party to help legitimate their candidates. And I wholeheartedly agree that people who are only involved in Democratic politics long enough to get a hijacked endorsement ought not be calling themselves Democrats. Those folks can call themselves whatever they want, as long as it's not the title stolen from the Democratic Party.
Or better yet, actually be a Democrat. Instead of putting resources into fighting fellow progressives, come into the party and help build the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But do it in such a way that you're inside the mainstream. Help the greatest number of people build a government responsive to their needs instead of appealing exclusively to a political extreme. Stop giving the word "liberal" a bad rep.
If you want to continue playing in third party land, please do it without hurting my party. The Democratic Party has always been about doing the greatest good for the greatest people. If you go through and hijack the party, who's going to represent the moderates (in Madison terms) or the liberals and progressives (in national terms)? If the Democratic Party can't put forward a candidate that appeals to the masses because a third party has manipulated an open and transparent membership system and put up someone who falls outside the usual scope of the party, is the community really being served when the choices are a conservative and a far-left liberal? What is the community, who generally prefers mainstream liberals, to do?
And please, lay off the name calling. Hack is rather harsh, but I'll take "bad hack" as a compliment. You're probably assuming I'm trying to be a hack and I'll take the "bad" to mean I'm doing a poor job of it. And don't call me a conservative. I'm not.
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