Only 22% of Democrats show interest in 2014 voting. Maybe "purists" need to be heard.

[Bluenorthwest]

155. So if 'they' are purist Democrats, and you are not, then you are a diluted Democrat?

That which is not pure is diluted, infiltrated, perhaps even tainted by that which poisons the substance to the point that the substance is inherently altered, as pure water is changed into mud when enough dirt infiltrates the supply. Yummy, yummy, impure mud.
The Democrats who call other Democrats 'purist Democrats' are clearly saying that they are amalgamated, an admixture of Republican and Democrat, not pure, they disdain pure Democratic policy and principle and desire instead those goals that are shared with the GOP, a purist is an actual Democrat, a Diluted Democrat has a bipartisan soul, thus they snarl at other Democrats to urge them to mix in some Republican policy and attitudes, to be 'less purely a Democrat' is what they seem to want for others, to be like them, part Republican and maybe also a bit Democratic, but not the liberal sort of Democrat, they are too purely Democratic and not nearly enough Republican is in their make up....
Personally, I happily seek to have not so much as an atom of Republican values or Republican policy in my make up. I am proudly and purely Democratic.
I get that you are partly Republican and despise those who are purely Democratic, but I can't go there or be that or even claim to respect such a stance.
I'm a Democrat, pure and simple every time.