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Showing Original Post only (View all)Those taking a strict "no Dem must be primaried" position may have a point... [View all]
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...there may be some situations in which it is too risky to be ok with anyone challenging a Dem incumbent...
...but you have a responsibility for advocating some OTHER way for people IN OUR PARTY to hold Dem officials accountable for at least some consistency in position and for some basic standards(for example, a way to make sure our economic vision means standing with the working and not-allowed-by-the-system-to work poor against the rich, at least at SOME level)
That doesn't mean "purity"-nobody is arguing that Dems never need to make any compromises on anything at all.
What are you willing to ACCEPT as a means to achieve that?
This is important, because the only way we'll hold the lead we currently have in the polls is by solidifying what we stand for and by giving people below and on the outside in politics some kind of a real say in what we're about. That's what calling ourselves "Democratic" means.