Liberal vs. Conservative.

Although I know, as does everyone, that the "liberal" and "conservative" labels do carry weight in any political argument.

But as I see it, the reason we don't have a parliamentary system, is that we are, primarily, a two party political animal. My point is that there are so many levels of "liberal", as well as "conservative", with both parties.

If this were not the case, then we would have a Liberal Party and a Conservative Party.

When, within our party, we attack "conservatives" or "liberals" or "moderates" as being anti-Democratic, we weaken the foundation of a party with a long standing "big-tent" inclusionary stance toward its members. We argue amongst ourselves, always have, and hopefully always will. Between the different levels of liberalism and conservatism, we find a stance that is good for AMERICA, not the Democrats, and certainly not the Republicans. Republicans do NOT argue, as a rule, and concern themselves only with power and financial gain into the pockets of their primary supporters...big business. They don't even have a serious concern about the religious right. They only manipulate them by taking their side in public, getting their financial and election day support, and then do some half-baked effort on the hill to try to make them think "we tried, whew and we are tired, let's take a break".

Democrats have ALWAYS been the party of the little guy, as my sainted father used to tell me. And all "little guys" are not liberals. Nor are they all conservatives or moderates. They run the gambit just like the rest of the party.

I see nothing wrong with debating amongst ourselves, but namecalling and viciousness is the hallmark of the Great Ole Pedophiles Party, not the great institution of the Democratic National Party, the party of JFK, LBJ, FDR, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton. And look at the range of philosophies you see in that list!

I do not belong to an organized political party....I am a DEMOCRAT!!

But then again....thats just me.........

for the most part Democrat politicians have taken the wrong turn and lost some level of our support where they have tried to emulate Repuglicans. I am specifically talking about them cozying up to big business.

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...that we are all in this together, and the party has a rich and wonderful legacy of coming together out of fights...nasty fights...but not party damaging fights.

Parties can change, philosophies don't.

But the Democratic Party has always been the only party that looked out for the little guy....the poor...the middle-class...the working man and woman.

And being inclusive, as it has always been, allows for many different philosophies to come together to creat policies that have the intention of helping, when enacted, to form "a more perfect union", something which the Good Ole Pedophiles have never cared about...unless more perfect means the rich get richer and the poor get poorer by making the rich richer.