It Begins: Vulnerable Senate Democrats rush to slam anti-Donald Trump plans

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11. This is a win-win.

If the Democratic Party stands for a philosophy and guiding principles focused on how a government of, for, and most of all, BY the People can increase equity, ensure justice, and build a better world for future generations, then we need to stand or fall by those principles.

If any part of those principles (the notion that government is a positive tool that can and SHOULD function to increase equity, ensure justice, and build a better world, for instance) is inimical to our own party leaders and/or elected officials, the Party should allow those party leaders and officials who have compromised those principles in order to gain access to elected office and its powers to stand or fall based on their own agendas.

If they manage to stand, on an agenda that is inimical to the Party's core principles, the label "Democrat" becomes tainted by their agenda, but in turn, they either have to accept Party caucus discipline (to an extent) or they should be encouraged to re-label themselves as Republicans or whatever other Party is more in line with their agenda. It's a messier win, played out over a longer time, at a higher cost, but still a win.

If they fall, their seat goes to an actual Republican. We haven't really lost anything in the long term since we'll either not have any actual democratic process or democracy remaining until after the current putsch has been countered, or the electorate will use the fading rags of democratic process and democracy to kick the Republican Party to the curb in no uncertain terms, and then we don't have those artificial "Democrats" to impede the process of cleaning up the mess, and we win again.

Carry on, people.

wearily,
Bright