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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=takoma][quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]The dysfunction of this primary is the direct result of the untenable list of extreme positions required to survive the primary process.[/quote]
That's a big part, but I think the bigger part is the Dems pushing the Reps to the right for decades. They've left them nowhere to go but crazy.[/quote]
Do you truly believe the Dems are pushing rather than allowing themselves to be pulled?  That's an explanation that, for me, is both new and hard to believe.[/quote]
That's mostly tomaito/tomahto IMO. My phrasing certainly isn't news to the Reps, who complained bitterly about Clinton co-opting their agenda. How fucking funny is that? The leader of the opposing party starts doing exactly what they always said they wanted, and they complain b/c it will make their campaigns a little trickier.

If you took me to be implying that the Dems were determined to go to the right as an end in itself as opposed to an election strategy, that wasn't my point there, though I do think that's the case for many Dems on some issues (e.g., finance regulation). I think the factors are:
- Dems are corporate whores
- Dems are gutless
- Clintons and their ilk caring about almost nothing other than getting elected
- faux Dems joining as convenient, notably in 2008

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