For Democrats to recover, ALL left-of-center people should be made welcome in the party.

[bekkilyn]

105. +1 political parties just don't have so much importance anymore

It's the candidate and what he or she stands for that matters the most. People are tired of candidates who refuse to represent the "little guy" and are having less and less of qualms about voting them out no matter what letter is next to their names. It's important for us as citizens and voters to hold our political representatives accountable.

People on this site and other places can complain however much they want about how people have no party loyalty and how they "should" always vote Democratic etc. but the reality is that people are finally getting tired of the partisan crap, and the election of 45 has only motivated more people to want change from political business as usual.

Our choice is to ignore it at our peril or to work with the new reality. If the party refuses to do that, it will simply be left behind with more and more people dropping out and becoming Unaffliated/Independent.