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They certain can be too wishy washy and willing to run to the right.
You sound like someone who is excusing the Democratic Party for abandoning their base. They are not wishy washy nor willing to run to the right. They ARE wishy washy and already ran to the right in all areas except guns, gay marriage and abortion, the 3 big social wedge issues that both parties spend 99% of the time talking about
Technically, both the Democratic Party and the Republican are right-wing parties because both parties are capitalist parties. The Republican Party is farther to the right, which is why the Democratic Party seems like it is on the left. Actual left-wing parties in the USA would almost all argue that the Democratic Party is on the right-wing of the political spectrum.
Absolutely. Obama has embraced the most right-wing foreign policy in my lifetime and he's more or less an economic tool for corporate interests. This is what makes the charges of Obama being a socialist from the idiot brigade so humorous.
For those of you that think the Democratic party is too far right, what do you want them to do differently? What policy changes?
The complaints I hear usually have to do with expanding Medicare for all, breaking up the big banks, closing Gitmo, worry about the drone attack program, worry about government surveillance, and curtailing oil and gas drilling. The left thinks Obama and many Democrats are too centrist. I don't really view myself as on the left, but I am a Democrat.
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