That's not the issue here. You seem to have missed the crucial word in my post: ELECTABLE.
They are electable, most notably in New England. The term New England Democrat did not appear out of thin air.
Our two main parties are mid-right wing conservatives and right-leaning moderates, with a few left-wing candidates from certain areas included in the latter.
That isn't a good description at all. The Democrats and the Republicans are both big tent coalition-type parties. They pretty much have to be. If they were not, they could not maintain a two-party paradigm. Do you think Corporate Interests Republicans really, deeply care about the agenda of the Traditional Conservative Republicans? That the Libertarian Republicans are in good with the Tea Party Republicans? That what reformers they have wouldn't stick with it if they didn't feel they had to? If not for the establishment tying them all together, because they have minimal internal conflict and need unity under the first-past-the-post system, they could all be separate parties.
The same goes for the Democrats. You've got Minorities, Greens, Unions, Social Democrats, the Religious Left, Progressives, Traditional Liberals, Secularists, and after all the fuckups of the GOP a lot of the moderate potential. While there is significant overlap for both parties, this overlap only exists in the first place due to the factions with the least objections to one another trying to stick together for increased power.
A thing I was once surprised to learn is that in many other countries, there are entire parties for the interests of racial minorities. That seems absurd from my point of view, but my point of view is from a place where the law makes such alliance parties the most rational option out there.
The "liberal" party barely passed a healthcare reform law that requires citizens to buy products from businesses and it was seen by both sides as progressive.
We'll see how long the state of affairs lasts. Healthcare reform has been a big battle for much longer than these past few years. Much more all-encompasing reform has been proposed but denied multiple times in the past. This has made the issue somewhat radioactive to politicians despite how badly it has been needed. The ACA, I think at least, is a form of "testing the water" on healthcare reform to see if the country will accept it overall.
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The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
One guess who and when that came from.
It turns out it was Thomas Jefferson, but I thought it was Hitler.
I also guessed Hitler. It's an easy enough mistake to make. Statements calling for a unity of the people tend to be either very good or terrifyingly bad.
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