No! Democrats not moving too far left. Here’s why they’re doing the right thing

JULY 22, 2018 BY EGBERTO WILLIES

I am tired of the Establishment Democrats, Corporatist Democrats, and the Corporate Media attempts to inflict fear into the American psyche about the Democratic Party. They are trying to gen up a false concern that Democrats are moving too far left. Do not buy it and here is why.

Progressives must ignore the Corporate Democrats attempt to continue centrist policies cloaked as Democratic principles. They are Republican Lite.

Salon's article "Some fear Democrats are veering too far left: But does centrism have a future?" says it all. In fact, they brought in Democratic Party traitor Joe Lieberman to make their point. Are you serious? Joe is the man who defied his party oath to support John McCain over Barack Obama. He is the same Joe Lieberman who also blocked the public option to the Affordable Care Act even as it had widespread support. Why should one take him seriously?

The article starts with today's reality.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont nearly seized the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton in 2016, and may run again in 2020. Many Democrats see Ocasio-Cortez's primary victory as a leading indicator of a grassroots rebellion against the party's middle-road establishment. When candidates like those -- or others interviewed in a New York Times feature this weekend -- discuss issues like persistent poverty, lack of economic opportunity and the sense that our political system is more beholden to big businesses than ordinary people, they speak to longstanding tensions and grievances within the Democratic coalition.

The values that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands for are not New York or Left Coast values. They are values that expressed appropriately in middle-America, rural-America, and Appalachia will resonate. It is the message for the forgotten ones. Cortez is clear.

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