Senate Democrats Win As Mitch McConnell Caves On Abortion Language In Trafficking Bill

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20. Not really

There is the concept of "the devil you know". And I think we kid ourselves when we elect anything with a D after their name. At best it is an occasional benefit, and at worse it is an act of self deception. Just about the time you really need this person, they cut your legs out. Better to know where you start up front.

The democrats spent the better part of the late '50s and early '60s "desegregating" the party, and forcing the southern democrats to support democratic positions. I'm not sure running around telling people we had to keep a "tent" big enough for the bigots to be included would have been such a great idea. Is there pain in the process? Sure. But we've spent about 20 years with the "anyone with a D" approach and what we've got to show for it is a middle class in decline, a banking system that seems to live on the edge of disaster, and ever increasing frequency and aggressiveness in our wars. And mostly it seems to have driven our opposition further and further to the right.

One can make a case that occasionally we ought to invite certain people to go join the other party. It's not purity, it's honesty, with ourselves, the electorate, and to be quite honest, with the people who should be in the other party to keep it from going too far to the right.