> What Doug describes has certainly been my experience locally. Even
> those who moved away from the Dems were apt to slip back with the
> slightest excuse to do so. And in the last 3 or 4 years it has
> particularly bled the initial leadership. We are now in the
> uncomfortable position of having radicals at the center.
I'm not sure I understand. It sounds like you're saying Democrats who used to be active are no longer active. And that they've "slipped back." Slipped back to what? Do you know they stopped being active because of their Dem affiliation, or are you just assuming? And how does the affiliation have this effect exactly? It sounds like you may be automatically equating withdrawal from activity with some sort of "reinsertion" in the DP, but is this just an assumption? And what would that even mean? You yourself say the local Move-On ,"while pushing Democrats as elections near in between times behaves more like an activist group."
SA