Reply #8: So, basically you are saying [View All]

let's destroy the party to save it? Yeah, that'll work. The neo-cons became the power within the repub party because they went into it and moved it to their way of thinking. But, instead you say let's let them win more elections so MAYBE we will find the people that will measure up to your standards. How many people are you willing to let die so you can have your perfect dem party? Because whether or not it's the battlefield or no health care, people will be dying, until you have your perfect party. Let's let our kids grow up uneducated, but able to take tests. Yeah, that'll work. You are willing to throw away an entire generation of children to get your perfect party?

I have no idea what you think your perfect party will accomplish. But us imperfect dems will work to bring the ideals we hold dear, and move the party inch by inch to our way of thinking without destroying it. We will strengthen the party without weakening it. We do have core principles but, because we are a big tent, we see different ways to achieve what we want.

And, here's what every dem can agree on: health care for all, good education for all, a right to be paid fairly for work delivered, good infrastructure, good jobs, fair taxation, basic rights for all people and a government safely net. What is wrong with that?

As for those things that not all dems can agree on, that will take work to bring about. I am not looking for perfection, I'm looking for workability. With the dems, I can work with them to bring things around, with the repubs I can't.

And, if the repubs continue to keep power? Do you think they would EVER let the dems win again, no matter who you would put up for election? They would only let enough dems win, to make sure that the dems always look like they are ineffectual. That is the real world of politics.

zalinda