From the comments in my FoxLand post from last week, Rex has this to say:
Logic 2…open your mind. You referred to righties using a collective term, I’m referring to the left (including you) with a singular term. YOU are bitching about things that are YOUR own party’s fault.
Leave aside the nonsense of the beginning of this comment, the rest continues the misunderstanding that things like party and ideology aren’t synonymous. I understand that Republicans are purging their party so that everyone is ideologically to the right of Attila the Hun, but Democrats aren’t doing that. We have a broad spectrum of members in our party. We have far lefties (like Dennis Kucinich), we have mainstream lefties (like Barack Obama), we have moderates (like Harry Reid), we have conservatives (like Alan Boyd). They’re all in the same party, yet there is more than a 20% difference in their voting records. And Democrats, liberals in particular, don’t believe in abandoning people who we have disagreements with, we believe in doing what we can to move them in the right direction and helping them understand the right way to do things. When we talk about a policy that is a liberal one, it’s nonsensical to say that Democrats have failed to enact such a policy, since at least 64 Democrats in the House alone can’t be considered liberal. Democrats have a majority in Congress because we allow for a variety of thinking in our party. Liberals do not have a majority in Congress.
