Meanwhile, Ponder This

I'm taking a couple of days off.  The blog will be back next week.   Meanwhile here are a couple of questions worth pondering that I sent as a letter to The Nation, which is backing Obama.

Will there ever come a time when the Democrats have moved so far to the right that those who call themselves progressive will no longer vote for them?  Or will it remain the case that progressives will vote Democratic now matter how reactionary they become as long as they perceive that they are less so than the Republicans?