
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Does AOC's attack on Honest Joe make you more or less likely to support her? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to change that, liberals would HAVE TO either move to or start a new party. It'd be awfully dramtic of course, like the massive, overwhelming, early 1800s influx of conservative settlers to the original liberal Republican-Democratic Party established by Madison and Jefferson. And again when liberals flooded into the conservative Democratic Party about 100 years ago and took the label over again.
In between most of us moved, like Lincoln, to the new Republican Party and remained as the liberal wing of what became the nation's one huge party label until the conservative wing just got too powerful to remain any longer.
But we were always the same ideologically no matter what the label was. Liberal is one of the two basic personality orientations, and those don't change. We elect liberal leaders to represent us, just as conservatives elect conservatives (or nuts who pose as one of them) to represent them.
Note a huge problem with Sanders, btw? "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a liberal Democrat."
In any case, because Biden's in the middle of the mainstream liberal ideological range, his ideology is similar to that of by far most Democrats. And since he's done a good job for them, his liberal-dominated state has been sending him to congress for several decades.

primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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