Why the sudden urge to move the party right?

[hrmjustin]

38. it has been hard to read DU recently and it is not because of the Bernie/Clinton race like some here

claim. While it was a rough primary all it was politics and politics is not all peaches and cream.

No what upsets me is the purists have decided that being purist is not good anymore. Well normally I would say good because in politics sometimes compromise to some extent is needed to get things done. But now our friends have decided that we need to put people on a pedestal who are not all that interested in defending reproductive rights.

Now some might ask me as a gay man why do I care about reproductive rights, and I will say if you can compromise or throw out one civil right you can kiss the rest of them goodbye in short order. I am also the uncle of 4 nieces and two nephews, and I don't want my nieces to have go to a back alley to get an abortion. It pisses me off that women in this country have to drive hundreds of miles to a clinic to get this medical procedure done. I went with family and friends when they made this choice and it is hard on them, and having to now go even further than before to have this procedure done is unacceptable.

Extolling candidates that put burdens on women like this is no virtue!!!