I kind-of think of registered Democrats who vote for other parties like unions do of strikebreakers.

[LoZoccolo]

[frankcjames]

1. But aren't they smarter than average ?

I think of registered Democrats as being more intelligent than most voters. And ... there are times when the smartest thing to do is vote for somebody else.

Not often, though.

[LoZoccolo]

3. This is in terms of breaking solidarity with a decision at which we arrived as a group.

[WinkyDink]

5. The term is "quisling." Or "phony registration to mess up the Primary."

[Possumpoint]

2. I Think Of Party Members

Who demand loyalty votes for poor candidates as party robots.

[Lionessa]

4. I'm sorry but the union contract we agreed to ... to use your analogy

The "contract" we agreed to is not being honored by the president. You're trying to suggest that the president is the contract, but he's not, he's the one who told us about the contract we'd get, so to speak, if we elected him. He has failed to honor most of what he campaigned about,he's become like a union leader that became bought and paid for.

Unions may vote persons into position within their organization, but there obligations are to the union and the union contracts, not the individuals running the union. If anyone is a scab, it's Obama. His contract was supposedly going to put the middle class first, jobs, foreclosures, bank baddies, and environmental sensibilities; instead he's a bought and paid for stooge of Wall Street, the filthy rich, the Chamber of Commerce, and we middle-class...excuse me, used-to-be-middle-class are getting tired of the scab president.

[LoZoccolo]

7. So far, the membership is not contesting him.

[Lionessa]

16. Yeah we are. You wouldn't feel the need to post this tripe if we weren't.

[LoZoccolo]

25. I guess we'll both know for sure after primary season is over.

[toddaa]

6. I didn't realize I was voting for a party

Blind allegiance requires no effort.

[LoZoccolo]

10. It's called "solidarity" when the membership makes a decision together.

[toddaa]

29. Decisions are dispensed from party leaders

Solidarity means doing what you are told.

[LoZoccolo]

31. Did Howard Dean get to do this?

[toddaa]

32. Howard Dean is not a party leader

He's a politician. He does what he's told.

[LoZoccolo]

33. Howard Dean was the chairman of the Democratic National Commitee from 2005 to 2009.

[toddaa]

35. And?

Are you implying that the chairman of the DNC is a leadership position?

:rofl:

[LoZoccolo]

37. Yes.

[Cool Logic]

8. I think that those who follow parties and/or people, rather than ideas...

are devoid of a personal code of values.

[LoZoccolo]

11. Would you also vote against forming a union?

[Cool Logic]

22. That would depend on the ideas that a particular union advocated.

There is no doubt that unions have been a force for good as they facilitated the establishment of a seat at the table for workers; however, I believe that in some ways they have become far too politicized and top-heavy.

[Better Believe It]

9. And should everyone vote for Democratic politicians who actually break strikes and bust unions?

[LoZoccolo]

12. Are you talking about FDR's stance against public-sector unions?

[Bobbie Jo]

13. Or even union busting politicians like Nader?

:eyes:

[readmoreoften]

44. +1

[NaturalHigh]

14. I vote for the individual, not the party.

Frankly, I don't give a damn what people like you think of me or my vote. The Constitution never said that I had to vote like a party robot to exercise my rights.

Blindly-loyal party shills irritate me to no end.

[frylock]

15. i like turtles

[JackDragna]

17. I think of people who mindlessly vote for political parties..

...as corporate-enabling, ignorant robots.

Happy now?

[LoZoccolo]

26. I try to respect the choice of my fellow partisans.

[ThomWV]

18. I believe the proper name for such people is "Scabs". Don't know the origin, but it sounds right.

[Recovered Repug]

19. I think threads that only contain subject lines and nothing else

are like hemorrhoids. They're a pain in the ass and you can't wait for them to end.

[LoZoccolo]

24. You wouldn't have to wait for anything if you didn't click on them.

[Downtown Hound]

20. That's nice dear. n/t

[Modern_Matthew]

21. I kind of think I'm not in a cult, though some would love nothing better than to run it like one. nt

[LoZoccolo]

23. Are unions also cults for expecting solidarity?

[Douglas Carpenter]

27. likes all those Vermont scabs who keep deserting their party to vote for Sanders, bastards...scum.

[whatchamacallit]

28. Thanks for the Deep Thoughts, Jack Handey

:crazy:

[LoZoccolo]

30. That's as far as it shoots.

[Edweird]

34. I'm sure they are wounded by your words. As a registered Democrat Union member

that is unwilling to vote for RW policies, no matter what letter behind the politicians name, I don't give a crap what you think about anything.

[Bonobo]

36. That's interesting. I kind of think that people who vote "Dem" with no concern for the issues...

are sort of like fans at a sporting event.

[LoZoccolo]

38. In which sport do the spectators choose their team's players?

[Bonobo]

39. Sporting teams are all about winning and have no ideology, that's the point.

I know that is hard for you to grasp, but that is the concept you constantly support -winning with no need for ideological principles.

[LoZoccolo]

40. I would imagine that that spectators who chose the players on their team, would want them to win.

[Bonobo]

41. Look, I don't really care if you want to keep ignoring the point, but....

The question is "What do you win/" and "What are you fighting for?"

[LoZoccolo]

43. We win the leadership and/or representation of the person that the majority of the party selected.

[Bonobo]

47. ......

"Your story has become tiresome."

[LoZoccolo]

48. That may be because your analogy never fit to begin with.

[Lucian]

42. Blind allegiance to a party that's failing is irresponsible to this nation.

[readmoreoften]

45. I would too if the Democratic Party was a party of the working-class.

But it's not, and so it doesn't deserve my solidarity. At all.

[Rex]

46. Simplistic analogy that is wrong.

Dem actually votes for another candidate that has a different agenda then their registered party, however the scab still does the same job as picketers so no you are wrong kind-of.