DNC elects a new leader.Liberalism is now dead.Long live lib

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25 Feb 2017, 10:18 pm

The Democratic National Committe have elected Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, a conservative, and Keith Ellison as assistant chair, as their next leaders. As far as I'm concerned, the Democrats have completely abandoned all their traditional bases to become the new Republican Party (now that the far-right loons have taken over the current Republican Party. Say goodbye to everything that was gained over the last 80 years. Instead of this country being "of the people, by the people, and for the people," it is now a country "of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. Everyone else can eat sh!t and burn in hell." The Clinton's should be proud: they finally destroyed the party that FDR re-created and got them elected to the Presidency.

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26 Feb 2017, 1:23 am

Perez is to the left of most of the democrats in congress; by what measure could he be described as conservative?

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26 Feb 2017, 1:59 am

From the Presidential Twitter Feed:

Donald J. Trump
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"Congratulations to Thomas Perez, who has just been named Chairman of the DNC. I could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!"

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26 Feb 2017, 2:09 am

Dox47 wrote:

Perez is to the left of most of the democrats in congress; by what measure could he be described as conservative?

Compared to the comedian senator from Minnesota (and quite frankly, he shoulda stayed in show business), as well as the long deceased senator from Illinois, Paul Simon, this guy, from what Little I've read or seen, is a John Bircher. But what do I know? I'm just an ignorant, stupid Pennsylvania Dutchman who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

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26 Feb 2017, 1:31 pm

Meistersinger wrote:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/to ... ogressive/

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And both Perez and Ellison are well to the left of center on the spectrum of beliefs within the Democratic Party, though Ellison’s views are more deeply left. In fact, he’s more liberal than 90 percent of House Democrats, according to FiveThirtyEight ideological ratings that look at congressional voting records, donors and public statements. Ellison scores a -57 in our ratings (-100 is most liberal; +100 is most conservative). The average Democratic member of the House in the 114th Congress (2015-16) had a congressional record voting score of -40. Perez never served in Congress, but he did make an abbreviated run for attorney general of Maryland and has made public statements on political issues. Using these, we estimated his average score at -45, which is not as liberal as Ellison’s but indicates that he may be further to the left than the average Democratic member of the House.

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But what do I know? I'm just an ignorant, stupid Pennsylvania Dutchman who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

You said it, not me.

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26 Feb 2017, 6:16 pm

I hope the left can learn from some of the mistakes that in my opinion they have been making recently. I see so many left leaning people say things that are in my opinion are bigoted. I am sort of liberal myself.

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