So some do not consider us real Democrats? Want us to leave the party? [View all]

[madfloridian]

This is beyond sad now. I could say I have been a Democrat since the first time I ever voted. I could say that I have supported candidates in the primary who lost, but I have always voted for the nominee.

But why bother anymore? Seems some paint us all with the same broad brush..."NOT Democrats."

The Need For A Divorce

I've encouraged the Sanders supporters at DU to leave the Democratic Party and to go form their own. They're not Democrats in the truest sense, they're totalitarians who require unquestioned allegiance, as several of you have noted. FDR would want nothing to do with them. But they, of course, don't want to do the heavy lifting of forming their own party. Better to pirate what someone else built. Is anyone really surprised at this?

Why do Sanders supporters need to go elsewhere? Despite what they claim they believe, their actions spell out their motivations all too clear. They will never be happy within the Democratic Party unless they have things 100% their way and with everyone in the party 100% in agreement with them. Even those who have been members for 50+ years will, in essence, have to swear an oath to all things "progressive" as defined by them. All you have to do is see how upset they are that you're "permitted" (from their POV) to talk about Sanders on this site where they can't shut you up. Is there any doubt they'd be any different should he win the election? A party like that either becomes a dictatorship or it crumbles. And don't believe for a second the Sanders supports have any problem with dictatorships, especially when it means they'd get their way.

...When Sanders does not get the nomination (and he won't), his supporters need to be told in no uncertain terms to go away. We don't need them. They're nothing but trouble. Why the hell would we want to embrace a group that we know is going to be nothing but a thorn in our side? All your going to get from them is "I'll hold my nose and vote for her, but I'm not going to pretend she's not a war hawk and a corporate $@#*%!!!!!! And I'm still going to call her that!!!!" You really think the Party needs people in it like that?? Has Obama needed that shit?? Hell NO!

Oh, but some will say we need them to win the election. I strongly disagree. Look, if you have to win by having them on board, you've already lost before you started. I think showing them the door is the best thing for not only the Party, but for the country. And the break-up, which is coming at some point, is going to be worse later than now.

I have never had a post hidden, and I take pride in that.

But sometimes some things need to be pointed out.