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Not only difficult
and partly in getting more progressive Democrats elected, even in the red states. Accomplishing either isn't going to be easy, nor can either be accomplished entirely within the party. It's probably best to view these tasks as complementary, not as contradictory -- if we can manage it.
-- William Timberman
It takes time and patience. Very difficult for the MTV generation.
In the interest of correcting myths...
One Democrat has been "cited" as having an influence on some "key figures associated with neoconservatism". Some of them were socialists once. Most have always been right wingers.
As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scoop_Jackson