Barney Frank criticism of Democratic Party

So what are we disagreeing on?

… I was surprised when I read it because I was like, ‘Why aren’t you talking about this?’

You tell me.

Who pays attention to the offical platform? A political platform has nothing in particular in common with what a party actually intends to do. It’s mainly just a sop to tradition; parties write up a platform because they are traditionally supposed to, and then they and everyone else ignores it.