Please quit threatening to not vote, or vote for a third party candidate!

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57. Probably because it is not

an absolute requirement to show our party ID card in order to gain membership.

Some of us are unaffiliated leftist progressives. Some of us are former Democrats who left the party because of the New Dem take over. Some of us are Greens and Socialists.

The majority of DU members are socially progressive (without the need to have evolved), economically progressive (in the traditional FDR sense), and very strong anti-war and anti-MIC activists. The vocal minority are the neoliberals who shamed LGBT members after Obama was elected, are afraid of modest taxes for social services like damned Libertarians, and love the candidate who is as hawkish as Thatchter.

Good for you in voting straight Dem. But who I vote for or don't vote for is my choice as it is yours and theirs. There are no loyalty oaths in a functioning democracy.

DU may restrict those who do not want to vote for Clinton in the GE, but unless that member breaks the ToS, there is no legal way to ascertain how any of us voted or for whom.

Why is this so hard for so many to understand?

These attempts to force members to violate the ToS are as tiresome as the assertions that some candidate is inevitable just because it is her turn. We are still months away from the first votes of the primary and almost a year until the GE. So much can and will happen between then and now.