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Originally Posted by Vulcan
What difference is it how it starts. The Tea Party had the religious right to organize their political ambitions. Sure they started out with electing dog catchers but after a while their small percentage controlled the GOP.
The left doesn't have a church to mobilize so they have rallied around a leader. I don't see anything wrong with that other than when Bernie moves on, someone else needs to take up the mantle. I think we are seeing the end of the Blue Dog Democrat as the country votes more in line with it's political philosophies and the Democrats will truly represent the left.
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It's important how it starts because they already have everything in place if Cruz wins to pass all the bat#### fantasies he wants. They built their obstruction loving Congress over the years. Bernie couldn't pass a bill calling America "the greatest country ever" without being obstructed. Bernie has few allies even within the party he wants to lead. The movement is nothing if they don't move on to the grassroots level and get their people in Congress. But the problem for them is there is always going to be Democrats from the Midwest and South who will often be more conservative, like it or not. So solving that part of the equation, as Obama learned, means compromising. Not every Democrat is a Northeast or West Coast liberal. Its a broader party than the GOP.