It's a big club, and you ain't in it

[davekriss]

96. And your Doctorate is from where?

The essay concludes we have economic-elite domination and biased pluralism. Since you are so keen on definitions, can you tell us here what that means?

You never did answer my direct question earlier. Is that because you have no answer and need to run from it? And you run from it because you can't support your claims except with bombastic claims, peppered with curse words, that "it ain't so"? You can do better than that.

Understand this: Because we have these crises in democracy, there is no reason to throw in the towel. You, I, and everyone else here really need to defend what we believe in away from here (or one does not belong here). My belief is we should, as we just did, fight out our ideological principles in the primaries. If we lose (as I did), our next responsibility is to rally around our collective choice (who is infinitely better than the alternative). I also believe that 'all politics are local' and reconstruction begins in the fight for school boards, alderman, governors, and state legislatures. My bet is we don't disagree on these points. But if you believe we are a problem free, fully functioning democracy, we simply disagree. A nice aspect of being a Democrat is we can disagree yet fight shoulder to shoulder in those things we do agree on.

If this last paragraph inflames you, well it just shows your true colors.