{"id":2187,"date":"2010-07-08T04:37:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2010-07-08T04:37:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:37:41","slug":"the-slippery-slope-slid-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/the-slippery-slope-slid-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slippery Slope Slid Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For some time I have been claiming that the Democratic Party is further to the right today than was the Republican Party in the 1960s.&#160; Cenk Uygur, filling in for Dylan Ratigan, illustrated my position beautifully.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc560094\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=38134710^0^655803&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc560094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=38134710^0^655803&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 420px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Many of my progressive friends feel frustrated with my continued support for the Democratic Party, given the above.&#160; However, today\u2019s political reality is that third party support on a national level frustrates progressive goals.&#160; The deck is stacked against third parties.&#160; Even the great Teddy Roosevelt could not win as a Bull Moose.&#160; For now, the Democratic party remains the better choice, while national third party support only facilitates Republican power.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I want to throw my support behind a new party, a party to the left of the Democrats.&#160; But the time to do that is after the demise of the Republican Party, and that is my goal.&#160; To be successful, a progressive party must be one of the two main parties.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time I have been claiming that the Democratic Party is further to the right today than was the Republican Party in the 1960s.&#160; Cenk Uygur, filling in for Dylan Ratigan, illustrated my position beautifully. 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