Ya Know... For Every Person Accusing Some Of Us Of Being "Purists", I Would Love To Know...

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113. I'm doing fine

Retired Military Mustang Officer (Prior enlisted). Made close to 6 figures while on active duty. Have a great retirement pension, and also get some disability from the VA. Pay for my Health Care through Tricare, but it's great coverage, and I can use the VA if needed.

Kids doing great. Jim Webb pushed through the Post Montgomery GI Bill that allowed me to transfer my education benefits to my kids. One has a full time job, one in Grad School.

BUT...no one died in the street for me. That's a bit much. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I married a great women. Kids had great Public Schools, parents did a good job raising me...AND ALMOST ALL OF THE BENEFITS I HAVE ARE FROM DEMOCRATS THAT YOU AND FEW OTHERS ON DU WOULD DESCRIBE AS "CENTRIST"

Let me say that again....A great deal of the benefits I get, and a great deal of the things I have benefited from came from Democrats that you and a few other "purists" on DU would demean as centrist

FDR wouldn't pass some DUer's test AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
Harry Truman wouldn't pass some DUer's test AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
Jim Webb wouldn't pass some DUer's test AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

and do you know who DIDN'T help ensure those benefits are there for me and every other American willing to take advantage of them??????

EVERY GOD DAMN REPUBLICAN TEA-BAGGING ASSHAT WE JUST ALLOWED TO TAKE OVER OUR GOVERNMENT because some Dems are not pure enough, and somehow, some folks got the brilliant idea that we should just sit on our hands since the most Progressive President in my lifetime didn't fulfill every God Damned "pie-in-the-sky" liberal policy on somebody's wish list.

I'm sorry, but for the "purist" out there, I have a fucking question for you....Would you rather take a couple of small steps forward, or leap off a fucking trampoline that puts you back 70 years? Because you know what...by not supporting the Party that is taking those "small steps" forward, you empower the folks that are running backwards with Wilie Coyote Acme Rocket Powered Sneakers on their feet.

That's what I fucking think of the "purist", and those ignorant enough to think both parties are "just the same".

Fuck that shit. Enjoy the next two years, or decades, or centuries of trying to dig out of the hole these fucking Tea-baggers are going to put us in.

At least you can say "I sent a message to the Democratic Party" as the country burns around you. Huzzah! Great Job!