What the &^%$ have you guys been saying about "social issues"?

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24. It was started by New Dems

and actually quite a while ago.

They ultimately lie when it comes to social liberalism and justice. They will talk about support for LGBT individuals and yet it was New Dems with the help of the GOP who started DOMA and DADT. It took them decades to 'evolve' and finally look to over-turning those.

They will talk about social justice for persons of color and yet look at cities like Detroit that were devastated economically by Neo-Liberal New Dem economic policies in the form of NAFTA. And they want to do it again with the TPP.

They will talk about securing Roe v Wade and a woman's right to choose an abortion, but then we get a watered down insurance mandate with so many loop holes in it States and corporations are able to find work arounds that penalize all of us.

They have been so focused on Democrats winning at all costs that they compromised traditional progressive FDR style principles for those wins. And honestly, they are not wins. There are many more losses. Most state governments are in GOP hands and it is not just from gerrymandering. When they run as Republican lite like Alison Grimes did, they lose because Truman was dead on right about electing a 'real' Republican over a DINO acting like one every time.

When your position is one of triangulation, you are bound to be perceived as incongruent and inconsistent. This really won't end until Dems elect someone like Sanders and the New Dems like Clinton, Obama, and HRC are soundly defeated within the party.