Reality: There's a decent chance that the GOP will control the entire government

[Virginiá]

This describes the overwhelming majority of this Democratic Party.

Let's just call them what they really are: The Republican Party, Part II.

One poster on another thread, thinking it's all dandy, wants the status quo because to change to a Bernie-type Democratic Party—which is more in line with the Franklin Roosevelt/New Deal Democratic Party than the Bill Clinton/DLC/Third Way Democratic Party—would deliver huge Republican majorities in both houses of Congress.

You do realize that even before Clinton, the Democratic Party was riddled with conservatives, right? Far more than today. Don't you ever wonder why, despite such large, enduring majorities in Congress for literally generations, New Deal-esque stuff was rarely passed unless Democrats experienced massive gains, such as in 1933-1939, or 1965-1967?

You'll never be satisfied.

[Virginiá]

Of course he won't. He wants socialism, that's probably not going to happen in the US any time soon.

I suppose. I already had a hair-pulling conversation with him on his ideological purity and how self-defeating it is in another thread, but I wanted to point out that the party he thinks existed prior to Bill Clinton/DLC didn't actually exist in the form he might believe. I think it actually might be more accurate to call the pre-Third Way era Democratic Party Republican II than today's Democratic Party (though I still think that label is inaccurate in both instances and an insulting delegitimization tactic common among the ideological fringes)