I will settle Democratic inter party fighting right now

[DIVINEprividence]

Both sides are partly right. AOC is right. Going too heavy on virtual hurt our ground game and we need to step up Latino outreach. Centrists are right “Democratic Socialism” and “Defund the Police” are examples of terrible progressive messaging run amok that killed us in swing states. So up the ground game, step up Latino outreach and replace “Democratic Socialist” with “Liberal” and “Defund the Police” with “Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform”. Problem solved. Now let’s go kick some ass in these Georgia Senate races. We are all on the same team and we have the final showdown in just a few weeks. No time to fuck around!!!!

[coti]

1. Democratic. Democratic intra-party fighting. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. This internecine fighting is NOT what we need right now. That's all I have to say.

Damn it.. Help us truly end Trumpism and then we can fight over the best way to rise from the ashes.

[marybourg]

3. Democrat-IC.

[lagomorph777]

4. DemocratIC, please.

And it's "intRA-party"

Otherwise, I agree with your message and welcome to DU!

[DIVINEprividence]

7. Stop majoring in minor things

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Hmmm, so you are INTENTIONALLY insulting the party, got it.

[hlthe2b]

14. See the article linked in my post#9. To continue misnaming Democratic Party is a SLUR

I understand if you did not know the history or are grammatically unaware, but please realize to continue to do so is going to cause you problems here.

[cwydro]

19. It's not minor.

Please look up the difference between inter and intra if you choose to ignore what others are telling you.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. Repeat ater me "DemocraTIC" is an adjective. "Democrat" is a noun. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. EDIT your OP please democratIC

[hlthe2b]

9. Please read this and recognize why it is DEMOCRATIC Party

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/07/the-ic-factor

There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. “Democrat Party” is a slur, or intended to be—a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but “Democrat Party” is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams “rat.” At a slightly higher level of sophistication, it’s an attempt to deny the enemy the positive connotations of its chosen appellation. During the Cold War, many people bridled at obvious misnomers like “German Democratic Republic,” and perhaps there are some members of the Republican Party (which, come to think of it, has been drifting toward monarchism of late) who genuinely regard the Democratic Party as undemocratic. Perhaps there are some who hope to induce it to go out of existence by refusing to call it by its name, à la terming Israel “the Zionist entity.” And no doubt there are plenty of others who say “Democrat Party” just to needle the other side while signaling solidarity with their own—the partisan equivalent of flashing a gang sign. --snip--

The job of politicians, however, is different, and among those of the Republican persuasion “Democrat Party” is now nearly universal. This is partly the work of Newt Gingrich, the nominal author of the notorious 1990 memo “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” and his Contract with America pollster, Frank Luntz, the Johnny Appleseed of such linguistic innovations as “death tax” for estate tax and “personal accounts” for Social Security privatization. Luntz, who road-tested the adjectival use of “Democrat” with a focus group in 2001, has concluded that the only people who really dislike it are highly partisan adherents of the—how you say?—Democratic Party. “Those two letters actually do matter,” Luntz said the other day. He added that he recently finished writing a book—it’s entitled “Words That Work”—and has been diligently going through the galley proofs taking out the hundreds of “ic”s that his copy editor, one of those partisan Dems, had stuck in.

[PoiBoy]

16. Thank you for posting this..

I really appreciate this... thanks again..!!

[cwydro]

17. Thank you.

Things that make you go hmm...

[regnaD kciN]

10. IMO, Joe needs to mediate this right now...

He’s the only one who can generate party unity, which we’re going to need come January.

[Sherman A1]

11. Well,

That certainly settled everything.

[aidbo]

12. Dem. Socialist and liberal are not equivalent.

[BannonsLiver]

13. Until

There is understanding that what works in a D+30 district is different than what works in a R+5 district this will go on.

[samnsara]

15. i agree....

[Wanderlust988]

18. I agree...I think both sides are correct in many ways

I think after 2018, the progressive left overplayed their hand a bit and thought the whole country was ready for a revolution and it turns out it wasn't true. Our party wasn't even ready for a 'revolution' as Biden won the primaries.

[Hortensis]

20. Well, 3 badmouthing well over 200 Dem colleagues is not "infighting."

That really needs to be pointed out.

I'm sure the 3 would be absolutely thrilled if their troublemaking even qualified as a little "squabble," but how could it? I guarantee you the others are much too busy getting ready for 2021 and also far too smart to gratify their desire for attention.

Except for Manchin, riding the ideological knife edge in WV, who finds throwing an over-publicized nya-nya at the tiny socialist trio useful for appeasing the trumpists in his district. Their exchanges of shafts benefit them all, and don't they all know it.

As for the 200 or so total from our two ideologically liberal progressive (!) caucuses, they're still extremely unified in goals and against the Republicans, just differing on details. Many are currently maneuvering for committee assignments and leadership positions in the 117th congress, as they do every 2 years, and there are some sharp words and elbows being thrown among themselves there. Of course.

[intheflow]

21. We've tried "criminal justice reform."

The cops are forced to go to a 2-hr diversity training and then get lots more money and retired military equipment. Defund the police and criminal justice reform aren't even the same thing. Defunding means reallocation of police department budgets to less cops and more social service responders to many 911 calls. Criminal justice reform still frames the issue as assuming criminality in most 911 calls. That's exactly the mindset we have to get rid of; most calls to cops do not require someone who responds with a gun and cuffs.