Reply #207: Mission statements suck!

[Yuugal]

Mission statements remind me of the republican loyalty oaths. If we are truly to be a big tent party, then any mission statement we come up with will be by definition flawed since some free-thinker out there will always disagree with something in it. (mission not accomplished) I don't need any person or group to give me their opinion of what I stand for when I post here. (other than that I'm a democrat) Since this is a free discussion area for our party, I'd like to see the mission statement be a one-liner about how free speech rules!(if we must have a statement at all)

The whole idea that we must all share the same view of our mission makes me ill. If I want a closed minded approach like that, I can just goto my local church, where some guy will tell me all about what I should think in order for his god to send me to heaven.

Does anyone remember democrats.com? I joined right after the 2000 fiasco but never bothered to get into it because the moderators were constantly trying to tell us what to think, how to think, what constituted a "good democrat".....crap like that can kill a good site like this pretty fast. It sure hurt democrats.com as people got fed up with being told what they stand for. I don't like when republicans pretend they know what we all stand for. (as if 56 million voters all share the exact same views) I like it even less when my own party stoops to the same thing.

Since I'm really loving Canada today, I'll close with a line from one of their best exports: RUSH(the band, not the village idiot)

I CHOOSE FREEWILL!