We are Democrats - All of Us [View all]

[NanceGreggs]

We are Centrists and we are Far Leftists, and everything in between. We are The Big Tent. We embrace all who have the same goals: political compromise that moves the nation forward rather than backward, diplomacy in foreign affairs over an immediate call for aggressive action, support of social safety nets that assist the down-and-out, support of legislation that ensures every individual’s right to vote, to marry who they love, to have their voices heard, along with a commitment to change what must be changed in order to see that those goals are not obstructed nor ignored.

Some of us are conservative on some issues; some of us are extremely liberal on the same issues. Some of us have a different perspective on how to achieve our commonly-held goals, but the goals themselves are common to us all.

Some of us see one potential candidate or another as representative of our own thoughts on how best to accomplish what we desire to be achieved. All of us want those accomplishments to be realized; we only differ as to how they are more expediently made reality.

Those who seek to divide Democrats by focusing on their differences rather than their commonality of purpose have an agenda – and that agenda only serves one purpose: divide and conquer. And that divide-and-conquer stance benefits only one party – the Republicans.

Those who choose to separate Democrats into subsets – the Centrists, the Far Left, the Leftier-than-Thou, the True Progressives ™, et cetera, are not interested in a united party, nor its ability to achieve common goals. They are interested in division, and the weakening of the Party that ensues from such division.

If you’ve been labelled a Third Wayer, a ConservaDem, a DINO, or any of the other labels that get thrown around here on a daily basis, it is probably because you are too committed to our common goals to be persuaded to abandon them as unattainable, too positive in your outlook that we CAN change the things we must, too stubborn in your conviction that both parties are NOT the same, too much a part of the “we will not be moved” stance that frustrates the divide-at-all-costs faction that are now allowed to post here without interference.

The Democratic Party stands for what it has always stood for. And those who tell you otherwise are not the least bit interested in your convictions – they are only interested in their own. And their own convictions are obvious to even the most casual observer, along with their own agenda, and what they hope to accomplish.

There is something amiss when a self-proclaimed Democratic-supporting site allows its Democratic-supporting posters to be vilified, when Democratic supporters are dismissed as kool-aid drinkers, when Democratic supporters are encouraged to fight amongst themselves rather than fight against the common enemy on the other side of aisle.

It is not a matter of all holding the same opinion on every issue; it is a matter of holding together for a common purpose.

I stand with my fellow Democrats - as I stand against those who seek to divide us.