An Emocratic Tea Party?

One of the things that's been driving me craziest over the last three years is how Democrats and So-Called Progressives have become our worst enemies.

Yesterday, Thom Hartmann continued spreading the meme that we Progressives "need to have our own Tea Party." Meaning that we should stand on principle and obstruct any progress that doesn't fit in with our ideology. So, which ideologies are those? Some of us keep forgetting that there are so many different platforms within the Democratic party-- not to mention the Greens, the Socialists, the Anarchists...not to mention more Mainstream Democrats...and let's not forget Southern Evangelicals, and other people of Faith who have been belittled and ridiculed by us--right out of the Democratic Party and into the not-so-loving arms of the TeaPublicans. The problem of creating a Progressive version of the Tea Party and trying to take over the Democratic party by infiltrating it is this--unlike the Tea Party, a lot of our views would be seen as "fringe" views by a good half of the country. It might be easier if we tried taking...dare I say it-- a middle path; a Pragmatic path that we can all get behind, and have a snowball's chance in Hell of coming to fruition.