The Democratic Party for Democrats

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81. Party Loyalty means building an organization of

like-minded people to develop and achieve common goals and to keep working together on that shared vision over time.

Personal loyalty, such as many supporters of Sanders have toward Sanders and his personal vision and agenda, is different.

Party loyalty has some similarity to the old-fashioned style of patriotism best expressed as: My country right or wrong. When it is right or true, I work to keep it right, when it is wrong, I work to set it right.
Basically I am a member committed to building a shared vision within that framework or, if you will, home or establishment and keeping it going.
I appreciate what it has taken to build it and maintain it. I understand and respect its value.

There is a difference in how people view the Democratic Party., expressed recently here.
Some have said they see the Democratic Party as a vehicle, they have already built their own agenda or political destination and are looking for a bus, a car, a plane - a vehicle to carry them to that self-determined destination.
They think they can use the Democratic Party to get them where they want to go and if at some point they decide it can't-they plan to move on and find a different vehicle.

Others are in it for the long haul. They see the Democratic Party as a home, a place where they meet with other like-minded people and build a shared vision.

They build it and maintain it and if there are points in time when is not meeting their political goals-they don't leave home and say this house was really just a means of transport to get me to my personal political goal, so I am leaving to catch a different bus.

These different views of what a political party is are not going to be reconciled.