If you are going to vote for the establishment candidate why are you on Democratic Underground?

[Andy823]

148. You made a good point

"Politics is about compromise between conflicting points of view, conflicting agendas, if conflict is not allowed then compromise will never be reached."

So what happens when people have the "my way or the highway" belief system, that they and the candidate they support, are the only ones that are right, and if they are not the nominee, well they simply won't vote? I think everyone has a right to disagree with things they don't see eye to eye on, but we should simply agree to disagree and not go over the edge and post all kinds of things that are nothing more than flame bait, meant to alienate those who don't agree, and start flame wars, and I have seen a lot of that on this board.

Compromise is something we have to do on a daily basis, in work, and in our family life. It may not be exactly the way we want things to go, but it's much better than nothing getting done, or in making enemies of those who hold a lot of the same ideas that you might. I am supporting Martin O'Malley, but I have never trash either of the other two candidates. I don't see any reason to trash them, but instead I try and post positive things about O'Malley. I also try and ignore many of the more toxic threads that I do not agree with, simply because I know it will on lead to arguments.

Sometimes I think posters go to far with their dislike for the "other" candidate, and they cross the line and could get tombstones for what they say. Everyone should think about that before posting.