I’m pretty sure that the elites who propagate this nonsense through multi-million dollar mouthpieces such as Limbaugh or Beck know just how absurd and contradictory to pesky reality those assertions are. But the regressive populous - as gullible and ill-informed a bunch of bots as you’ll find anywhere - well, they eat this stuff up whole hog.

It’s really astonishing, because I can hardly think of three wimpier or more politically anemic drenched noodles than these Democratic buffoons, along with the rest of the pathetic Dem party. And also because America actually has had some pretty tough progressives in its history. Harry Truman would eat Harry Reid for breakfast, and still be hungry again before lunch. Lyndon Johnson could teach Barack Obama a few (thousand) things about how to move a legislative agenda through a balky Congress, and it wouldn’t involve getting his ass kicked by Joe Lieberman, I can tell you that. Franklin Roosevelt would surely be able to school Nancy Pelosi on the finer points of national leadership.

Democrats have been playing the weakness game for nearly a half-century now, ever since Johnson was driven from office in 1968. That has meant very bad things for the country, which has now been all but completely captured by economic oligarchs, via their wholly-owned human levers in both parties.

What is more remarkable is what it has meant for the Democratic Party, which seems incapable of being assertive even when it comes to preserving its own interests. And what it has meant for the Democrats is more or less that they lose elections, except when the default governing party of the GOP screws up so badly that the public has no other choice than to go with the feeble ones for a while. Republicans then get a few years to rehabilitate themselves, during which time they incessantly shred the Dems from the sidelines, and then the cycle begins anew.
What the American people wanted:

1) An end to stupid open ended “wars” - in reality, the Neocon dream of Neocolonialism. We wanted an end to the Chickenhawk Neocon wet dream of endless war.
2) We wanted some friggen jobs.
3) We want some affordable quality health care.

The current spineless Dumbocrats botched what we the people wanted. So, the only question is, where do we go next? Answer: we need multiple parties on a more equal footing with the two Evil parties, instant run-offs, AND public financing of ALL national elections