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longship

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4. Yes. We need to know whether we need to throw them under the bus with all the others...
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 08:16 PM
Sep 2013

who disagree with any individual issue. That bus undercarriage is getting mightily crowded these days (from all evidence presented here on DU these days).


But DUers should understand one thing. There's one thing I will likely never do; that's throw the Democratic Party under the bus. That means supporting the party even when it supports a policiy I find repugnant. The reason is that I cannot support anything that the opposition party supports.

So you don't support today's Democratic Party? Fine. Then do something about it. Stand up for precinct delegate. Become part of the solution instead of carping from the sidelines. From precinct, you can go to district, then the state, then the national. At each level you can leverage your opinion to make a difference.

I've been there. That's how you change a party's direction, from the bottom up. Lord knows -- so to speak -- the Republicans know this well. How do you think that the Republicans morphed into the theocratic, authoritarian party that it is today? They did it one precinct at a time.

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