To win elections, Democrats must explain why liberal principles work (and conservative ones do not)

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Friday November 07, 2014 · 3:13 PM PST

2014/11/07 · 15:13

For the past 50 years, conservatives have been steadily promoting their bigoted, hierarchical, blue-nosed, and profoundly anti-American view of life, starting with William F. Buckley, Jr. and finally exploding with the Limbaughs and other radicals of our own day. Liberals, on the other hand, have failed to put their message where it will be heard by the broad public. The result is that liberalism is defined to the public by our enemies, and Democrats are often actively afraid of being identified as liberals. It doesn't work; they are so identified by the public; nevertheless Democrats tend to run away from their principles when running for office, while Republicans run toward theirs. The result is that it is very difficult to fire up the Democratic base, or to convince people who don't vote or have been voting Republican that there is any reason to do otherwise.

I say what follows (after the orange squiggle) with the understanding that there is no practical way around the two-party system:

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