DU has always had divisions and it always will

[DonCoquixote]

19. The ugly truth

The right is made up of many people that, if they had their way, would hang most of their comrades from trees, but they share a base hatred of the process of thinking, which keeps them from blowing away from each other. We, on the other hand, have the opposite issue, we are made of many groups that, if they had their way, would send everyone else to Gulags, but, since we emphasize thought, the pressure to blast apart is stronger.

I mean, Capitalists vs. Socialists vs Communists, Hillary Lovers versus Hillary haters, many of us found ourselves lumped into "Democrat" or "Liberal" because we had no other port in the storm. Now of course, we have had the illusion of winning because we have the Senate and WH. An illusion is what it was, as we realize that now, and as MannyGoldstein joked, what unites us now is that we are all more immune to the illusions, and demand something more solid than the props that have been hanging on the wall long after they needed to be torn down, props like Reid and Pelosi who still act supine to the GOP.

I do not despair, because frankly, it does not matter if we hate each other, any more than it matters to a bunch of cave dwellers trying not to freeze to death in a Blizzard. Americans tend to think they determine their identity, that they are the Captain of their souls, when often, circumstances define who we are, as the circumstances are turning to the point where will cannot help but work together against the fascist and the plutocrat. The issue is not if we will win, we have the numbers, it is whether or not we can stop the process by which we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.