Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar"

[sabrina 1]

364. Wow!

I don't join 'teams' that screw up badly and then require 'pledges' to keep on screwing up. My team recognizes when they have screwed up but only of their coaches let them know how much they are screwing up.

Pledge, you mean like Grover Norquist required of Republicans, making it impossible for them to do anything BUT support their worst and most losing policies?

No thanks, I am a Democrat. We don't need Grover Norquist to tell us what we stand for.

I noticed that a few Republicans realized that taking that pledge was a huge mistake, and a few of them DARED to reject it. WE on the Left cheered for them for finding their minds and refusing to be controlled by people who did not have their best interests in mind.

So who should WE make this 'pledge' to? Which Third Way screw up who lost two mid terms for our Party, do you suggest we pledge our minds and souls to and simply stop thinking for ourselves AND our party, and let them do to our Party what Norquist and his pledge did to the other party?

'Pledge of loyalty'??

The very thought of 'loyalty pledges' should send shivers down the spine of any Democrat! And it does ...

Definitely an Orwellian concept which thankfully OUR team is not likely to embrace.

You seem to be confused about Party Loyalty. The Party works for the people, THEY are ones who took an oath of office to work for US, the people who elected them.

Since when did this change to 'the plebs must raise their hands to the overlords and pledge their loyalty, or else ...?

The very idea shows how lost some people are. How much they have given up, which is fine, they just don't get to take over OUR party by giving up OUR rights to decide how our Party represents us.

A Political Party that is on the right track doesn't need to force its members to 'swear a loyalty oath'.. Doing their job is all it takes to get that support.