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In reply to the discussion: Those taking a strict "no Dem must be primaried" position may have a point... [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The term is offensive to me-it implies that it's unfair and somehow childish to hold any Dem candidate to anything.
But I've never been about "purity", whatever that means.
I've been involved in compromise politics my entire life. I'll most likely continue to do so.
But I simply don't accept that it's somehow evil for people to expect our candidates to listen to them and to stand for as much as possible of what they care about.
It took "Purity Police"-type people to get the Democratic Party to support the end of Jim Crow, after all-it took that kind of pressure to make the politicians do what had to be done. Same with reproductive rights, same with choice, same with marriage equality, same with the efforts to end mass incarceration. You need the unsatisfied and at times even the unreasonable to make anything happen.
Without them, change never occurs.