Is the democratic party moving to the right with the destruction of the republican party? If so, is the progressive left needed any longer? It seems not.
We all see the self destruction of the republican party. As it moves further and further to the extreme right, independents and moderate republicans are abandoning the party wholesale. Meanwhile, corporations realize money donated to the right is wasted money.
So is the democratic leadership moving right to capture former republican corporate money, moderate republicans and moderate independents? If so, the democratic party can complete the destruction of the republican party and capture the real prize of power, corporate money.
Unfortunately to destroy the republican party and cement their own power, the democratic party must move right. The progressive left is absolutely furious with what appears an incompetent democratic party unable to enact progressive legislation. So is the democratic leadership incompetent or are they pursuing their own party objectives of power at the expense of progressive objectives? Why was Bush able to ram through his radical right agenda while the democratic party, controlling both the executive and legislative branches, fails to enact a progressive agenda? Perhaps the democratic party is throwing cultural crumbs to the left while moving to capture moderate independents, ex-republicans and former republican corporate money.
Todays democratic leadership objectives may be as simple as greater party power and the destruction of the republican party. Unfortunately they would have to abandon their core constituency and sell their souls to achieve that objectives. They would have to cater to the center and corporations while abandoning the progressive left to irrevelance and the extreme right to the republican party. The democratic party would have to become the old moderate republican party capturing the center in deed, if not name.
So where is the progressive left going to go? Are they going to vote republican? Not with the democratic party taking the center and the republicans taking the extreme right.
Ironcially, we could see a wholesale shift of the political process to the right with the destruction of the republican party if the democratic leadership abandons principle for greater power.
It appears the democratic party no longer needs the left.