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101. So what are your "core principles"?

Mine include upholding the Constitution and Bill of Rights. So if my core principles don't align with existing electoral political lines, that's OK. The Democratic Party is composed of many constituencies. People like me do much more than vote and campaign for good Democrats. I have always supported civil liberties groups like the ACLU. There are some libertarians that are also supporters of civil liberties. I will work with ALL supporters of civil liberties and always have.

This is not a new phenomenon. During the LBJ administration many Democrats came out against the Vietnam War. The "mainstream" wing of the party accused them of abandoning the core principles, abandoning all the progress made in the war on poverty, the gains in the civil rights movement, etc. Compared with the current situation, it was a much bigger crisis. It even caused an incumbent Democrat to withdraw from his campaign for reelection and ultimately caused the Democrats to lose the election in 1968.

Of course the right solution would have been for Johnson to end the war and unite the party. He didn't and bad things happened. Today, the right solution is for our President to end illegal spying and other bad practices and unite the party. If he doesn't, perhaps bad things will happen. But don't try to blame it on Democrats who support the Constitution. That's baloney.