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Originally Posted by daswig
If it hadn't been close, I think they WOULD have behaved differently. Maybe not the far-left "MIHOP" Kool-aide-drinking crowd, but the rank and file Democrats? Sure. I think the results of 2000 pushed the Democratic party far, far to the left. And I think it's going to burn them in the future.
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In all honesty, "far to the left" in American politics is damn near in the center of the road. conservatives have been very successful in redefining the political vocabulary in this country, so much so that the word "liberal" has become a curse. It's always struck me as funny how often Bill Clinton was accused of being "far left." He passed NAFTA, joined the WTO and dismantled the welfare state. The US Green party exists because of the dissatisfaction of leftists with the Democratic party.