Jesse is a sucker and, like many Dkosians, he thinks that oversimplification is clarity. The Democratic party is a COALITION of people who do not all share the same point of view on everything. The GOP is a disciplined right wing ideological vehicle with several top-down organized factions. This may be too complicated for someone who wants it to be GOODIES versus BADDIES, but it's the reality. Even the "left" of the Democratic party is complex. For example, Bart Stupak who nearly killed health reform to support the Catholic Bishops pro-coathanger alliance was a staunch environmentalist and pro-labor, while Sen Brown of Ohio is strongly pro-labor but keeps supporting polluting chemical industries that employ many of his constituents. The white left in the US, as Fred Hampton pointed out, is a big fan of Custerism even though Custer did not win. He did, however, make a clear statement and not fuck around with all those confusing 11-dimensional tactics shit that true progressives despise so much. Raise high the banner of the 7th Cavalry, True Progressives, and march forward to glory or something.