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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Okay, but I don't see the distinction. The center is left of where we've been. A move toward the center is also a move toward the left. Nobody's claiming that today's election result jump-shifts us into Sweden territory, but it's certainly a liberalizing result, to coin a phrase.
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You know what? You're right. I guess my issue here (I'm not sure if I discussed it here or in another thread; sorry I've been extremely active over the last 24 hours) is that I am not comfortable with the framing of the discussion. Everyone out there claiming left, or even liberal, is correct. My caveat is that this isn't the way we ought to be framing this discussion. The assumption behind this kind of rhetoric is that democrat=left. Incorrect? No. But not entirely correct either. My fear is that if this election gets characterized as a leftward movement and not a responsiveness/accountability/responsible movement then we lose the votes that gave us our win. Can we <b>please</b> focus on right; on being the party that heals, the party that fixes, the party that rights the wrongs and not bog ourselves down in the politics as usual nonsense that lost us the support of this country in the first place and, in turn, lost the Republicans the support of this country yesterday. Let us rise above and say that Democrat is not defined by your swing on a constructed political contiunuum, but that Democrat is instead defined by good, clean, and responsible government.