"Republicans fear their base, Dems hate their base…" do we see this here?

[TreasonousBastard]

43. HA! I see the word "base" thrown around a lot, but...

nobody has bothered to define it. Used it as a point of argument, sure, but identify it?

13,000 voters in this township, with maybe 5000 Democrats and I've met a good many of them. Independents and "forced Republicans", too.

That's the "base" around here and most of us want better schools, less theology all around, environmental cleanup, and all the other good stuff us progressives like to talk about.

But, we have to live with each other, so the discussion is often limited, and we work side by side with Republicans at the homeless shelter and don't ask party affiliation when we give money to the animal shelter or to the poor family whose daughter fell in the creek.

Nobody ever mentions any online discussion group, much less DU. We all wish the best for the kidnapped girls, but we heard about them from the Times or NPR, not the Guardian. We know about fundie preachers in politics, but we don't have them here. Republicans around here don't like them much either. They feel the same way about teabaggery.

Want to find out what your "Base" thinks?

ASK THEM!

Carry election petitions, knock on doors and talk to the people who you know are honest-to-gawd registered Democrats and not some bulllshitters on the interwebs.

(Or have a birthday party!)