Democrats need a new direction

Joe Gandelman has a great column on The Moderate Voice about the direction of the Democratic Party. I agree that the Democrats cannot continue to go on without a change in course. The Democratic Party must appeal to the center. Democrats need to be strong on national defense and security. As a Democrat, I am tired of seeing my party lose elections because it is dominated by single issue activists with a hard-line environmentalist, civil libertarian, abortion rights or gay rights agenda. At some point, you have to connect with rank and file working class Democrats and mainstream America. Democrats are otherwise doomed to a permanent minority status.

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