Very good points, Don... Yes, it would appear that liberals and progressives are more willing to find common ground because of the complete corrupt and inept manner in which the current Republicans have been ***ruling****, as opposed to ***governing***, the country...

The problem with this isn't in liberals and progressives getting past their one-issue-ness (which I really do think is as one-issue-ness as it might seem) but that the Democratic Party hasn't made the overatures necessary to draw many liberals and progressives who don't have any particular level of trust in the party...

Bill Clinton certainly didn't play to the liberal component of the Democartic Party... Might of fact, Clinton was the perfect Nixon Republican... Especially after the right wing ganged up on his health care proposal... No, it was politics of pragmatism... Sure, he had to deal with a Republican controlled Congress but, hey, he lacked the balls to call on the liberals and progressives... Too bad... That was a bad move... At least we would have perhaps been having policy discusssions rather the witch hunt....

But as a Green, yeah, I'm still purdy steamed at the Dems and inspite of liberals and progressives joining hands there is no assurance they are holding hands with the Dems....

Yeah, the ball is very much in the Dem's court here... And if the Dems think that the liberals will come 'round, like they always try to badger us to do, the Dems are going to have to take on "Big Money" and tell the corportists that if elected, there will be a new sherriff in town...

Bobert