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2018 Will Be a Banner Year for Blue Dogs and Conservative Democrats
Democrats are unique in their willingness to sabotage their own legislative priorities in order to win seats.
A question was recently asked on Quora as to why there were no Republican candidates who supported Medicare for All, free college, ending the wars, green energy, etc.
There are no Republicans that are running on any of these wildly popular policies. Nowhere. Not even in the so-called “blue” districts and States, where one might think that such policies would help them.
Which begs the question: why don’t Republicans, like Democrats, modify their platform and policy positions to better appeal to the specific political preferences of the population in their District or State? After all, the Democrats are famous for saying that they “have a big tent” and that “what works in one District may not work in another” — and so on.
Indeed, Democrats are never short on excuses for running conservative candidates. The DCCC, the SCCC and the DNC itself are known to lavishly fund and support such candidates. They even have a name for such conservative Dems — they are called “Blue Dogs” and they have a very powerful and rich coalition in the Congress and the Senate.
So why don’t Republicans have their own version of Blue Dogs?
There is no GOP version of the Blue Dogs because while both parties serve the same corporate and Wall Street donors, only the Democrats need to pretend to work for the people and the working class.
This means that, to find the answer, we must once more go back to the Root Of All Evil, MONEY — and the way that mammon took over the Democratic Party back in the 1990’s under Bill Clinton — who was himself a conservative Democrat from conservative Arkansas.
Clinton and his conservative DLC hijacked the Democratic Party and turned it into Republican Lite, that is to say, a corporate-friendly, center-right party that was funded by, and did the bidding of, Wall Street and Corporate America, but one which was also OK with abortion and civil rights. The great change that Clinton and the DLC brought to the Democrats was essentially to absorb so-called…
