The Democratic party needs to change and embrace the progressive values it was built on since FDR

[still_one]

If it continues to sway in directions where people do not know where or what it stands for it will only get worse

[mike_c]

1. my friend, many of us have been saying that since the mid-1990s....

Were you here (on DU) during the 2002 elections? Tonight so reminds me of 2002.

[still_one]

4. I agree, but I am not so sure it will happen /nt

[MadHound]

6. Many of us have been saying that for far longer,

It was a shame and a sin how the Democratic party abandoned McGovern in '72.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. FDR's Democrats picked up many, many seats in his first midterm

Only 17 Republicans were left in the Senate!

[still_one]

5. and people knew EXACTLY where FDR stood, there was no ambiguity /nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

14. Then they handed him a stunning defeat in the election of 1938

They lost faith in him, even as he tried to correct for his error. People are "grateful" like that.

[leftstreet]

3. We could have been two years into implementing single payer

:cry:

[truedelphi]

10. If only wishing could make it so.

Then I'd still be wishing real real hard.

[mmonk]

7. It is worse already.

[Vidar]

8. I absolutely agree.

[Axrendale]

9. Here, here!

"If you offer voters a choice between a real Republican and an imitation, the American people will choose the real thing every time." - Harry S. Truman

[uponit7771]

11. MESSAGING, Obama admitted on TDS that people didn't know what they accomplished...that's messaging

...I would like to do what you suggested and get Dean back too.

[upi402]

12. I am a "fucking retarded" guy to the WH cabinet

I am their enemy. Time to recognize that they are mine.

quote from Rahm Emanuel is historic and not in dispute

[depakid]

13. We needed FDR and we got Millard Filmore

[SemiCharmedQuark]

15. FDR lost over 70 house seats in his second midterm.

People declaring our troubles would be over if only we had an FDR forget that.

[depakid]

16. You mean the midterm when he tacked right and worried about deficits?

rather than stimulating the economy?

;)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. Yeah the one where 2/3 of people polled thought he was too hard on business

The one that took place after the New Deal when supposedly people were.going to be Dem forever.

[City Lights]

17. K&R.

I won't hold my breath. I suspect the right-ward lurch will continue.