I have a suspicion that the people blaming Democrats

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15. Of course many, perhaps most did not. Not "understanding" why Democrats

didn't do this and that is often a giveaway that they don't know that Democrats did and are -- often many times -- or why they didn't, don't and aren't for serious, deliberate reasons. That's because they weren't involved enough to know why and remember.

Many never got involved enough to even understand the Democratic Party's liberal progressive principles and ideals -- hell, too often easily convinced by hostiles that they don't really exist or at best are weak noise. How many of us have even scanned our extremely lengthy party platform even once, or the parts we're interested in, compared how many times we heard we're "corrupt corporatists" (two easily remembered big-lie words over, and over, and over, and over again).

That said, anyone who aligns with us is us, thank goodness! Each vote actually cast FOR Democrats is as powerful and needed as anyone's.