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I often feel like my party has moved somewhere else, but it's not to the left.
To your list, I'd add the environment and judicial appointments. IMHO, the dems are consistently better on both these issues.
However, when it comes to issues of concern to those in the lower 40-50% of the income brackets, neither party is any good, because both are beholden to their corporate donors. It seems that most dems at the top, save Edwards, for example, have no clue what it's like to be in a financial pickle with no end in sight because your entire industry has gone overseas or been overtaken by low-wage immigrants and visa holders, legal or illegal.
And I doubt that few of them really know any blue collar types who are constitutionally completely ill-suited to going to college or working at a desk. My dad, two of my uncles and most of my neighbors growing up are or were like that, and they need jobs, too.
Really, I think that what we're talking about is a class division, not a political division, at least at this time.
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