Loon Leftist Democrats Move Even More Left

The March to Marxism

• With no Republican candidates for Governor or U.S.Senator there is nothing to stop the Marxists from turning California into Venezuela.

(San Francisco Chronicle)  -  Progressive Democrats are flexing their political muscles in California, pushing hard for their increasingly liberal agenda and doing their best to shove aside any candidates who could be viewed as moderates in one of the nation’s bluest states.

“Young, diverse, progressive candidates are how we’re going to win in California, not through milquetoast corporate Democrats,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “Voters are fed up with the current system and want to know someone will challenge the rigged political system and rigged economic system.”

But for Democrats desperate to flip conservative-leaning congressional districts now held by Republicans, there’s concern that the party’s move to the left may be taking them where most California voters don’t want to go.

A January statewide poll of 1,000 residents done by the Public Policy Institute of California found that only 18 percent of California’s likely voters identified themselves as “very liberal,” compared with 31 percent who styled themselves as “middle of the road.” Among only Democrats, the progressive number rose only to 28 percent.

Progressives showed their power as their delegates blocked what typically would have been a routine endorsement for 25-year Sen. Dianne Feinstein and pushed former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa into fourth spot in the party’s endorsement for governor, despite recent polls showing him running a close second to Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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