Hmmm ... some twit of a State Representative in California shoves her foot down her throat, and that's going to destroy the Democratic party? Puuu-leaze!
And the relevance of the link to "the Russian Revolution in 500 words" escapes me completely. Well, that's not true - I do see where you are trying to go. The problem is that it was a false comparisson during the FIRST FUCKING TERM of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and has only gotten more laughable with age.