You REALLY need to spend some quality time in a wild-eyed, ban natural gas, defund the police blue state.

Why? I don't deny that there are pockets of bright sapphire where the local folks are more wild-eyed zealots. I'm sure the People's Republic of Berkeley (to name one example) is very different from still very blue, but not wild-eyed, Miami-Dade County.

But Jedi was talking about the federal Patriot Act - and most of his diatribes against 401(K) Liberals involve national or federal issues as well. The national party isn't as liberal as the most liberal local politicians - any more than the national GOP is going to be as conservative as the most conservative enclaves.

The party is a coalition - and like any coalition, it has factions within it that have different views. The overall party is far more centrist than its most left-wing members. For some reason, Jedi is either himself surprised, or thinks we will be surprised, to find out this is the case.

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