3leftsdoo
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Your bolded does indeed very much describe the Democratic Party traditionally of years past, however. Back when the Dem rank & file was filled with blue-collar working men & women, often union, many of which were Catholic. That demographic pretty much defined my old neighborhood. Men & women of Faith who believed in freedom & capitalism, sex only in marital bonds, keeping your baby, Mass on Sunday, never taking a dime of government money for fear of neighborhood scorn, and not afraid to keep a gun around the house to protect your family and to try & drop a buck come fall.
I wouldn't want the present day Dems to give-up the social wars they've won - most needed to fought. But I sure as hell would like to see the big-tent opened-up to include the old crowd they've lost much of to Reagan and now Trump. We embraced Kennedy before, and there's no reason we can't embrace Bloomberg now.
If the obliteration of your party is the goal, by all means embrace Bloomberg.
Obama was a firebomb the party dropped upon itself; Hillary an atomic; Bloomie is nuclear annihilation. (And of perhaps more than merely a party in its death throes.)
But by all means, proceed.
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