This week-end, the latest addition to the MSNBC line-up made a statement that I believe warrants intelligent discussion: starting with an exit poll statistic where 20% said they considered themselves Liberal and 45% Conservatives, he then admonished his Liberal guests y saying: "I am not a Liberal who hides from it by claiming to be a Progressive. I'm a Socialist, therefore I believe we need to elect Blue Dog Democrats, and hide behind them."
Truly, the National Dialogue is out in the open now. Just as some Republicans claim that they should have done anything to elect more "Republicans" of any strip to get the majority in the Senate to get things done, the 20% on the left is no longer hiding the "end justifies the means", i.e. help elect Democrats that we don't even agree with because we can them hide behind them to advance a "socialist" agenda.
What do you think? It is not really shocking or surprising. Those of us who considered ourselves Socialists in the 60s and 70s have redefined ourselves as Progressives, unless we moved right altogether.
So is O'Donnell just being honest?
Guedy
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