Why should I be a Democrat?

[Scruffy1]

101. It's the only game in town.

Third parties are not viable in our current winner take all system. Although my leanings are quite a bit to the left of the average party member I have never regretted being a Democrat. I know quite a few third party people like Greens, Socialist Alternative, SDA, etc. I really like a lot of them, but they will not accomplish much politically in our sytem. Locally, the Greens hold one council seat and a friend of mine is a Green on the Soil and Water Board, but statewide they are zero and I don't think they have a coherent, fact based ideology. The Greens seem to be neither fish nor foul to me. At least the old SWP (it's still around) is clear about it's ideology.
i think the best we can hope for is to destroy the Republican Party. I thought they would only last for a few years after 1994 when people could see what they really were. I also thought 2008 would be a death knell. I was wrong. All it took was a concentrated by likes of Fox, Iheart, CNN and the backing of some of the oligarchy to put them back in business. The one good thing sbout the current debacle is that many voters are are starting to realize how bad the mass media, and especially television are.