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In reply to the discussion: Forget the letter. We all do dumb things [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)or they lose their political identity, their reason to exist, and their followers.
Those elected as Democrats have to please Democrats by supporting Democratic policies and actions. Yet all support must be balanced, and usually overbalanced, by behaviors that please those followers drawn to them as an oppositional faction.
So this is opposition.
Anyone can this balancing act going on constantly, and usually ridiculously blatantly when they look for it. Just check Twitter postings. Disapproval varies in style from strident anger at our intractable "corporatist corruption etc" to grave concern at our insistence on failing because we don't do as oppositional leaders advise. Or at forcing WWIII on the planet because we're too stupid to fear the risk and can't control our warmongering nature.
Of course, to be fair, people must believe in themselves. The opposition of most is sincere, as are the beliefs required to sustain it.