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In reply to the discussion: The DemocraticUnderground can say things the Democratic Party cannot say. [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)I don't know what is so difficult about the principle that when the Party leadership and the President are right - we try to keep them right and when they are wrong we criticize their policies and try to make them right -- This is stuff people in a democratic culture should have learned by age 10. Clearly there are some people here who are too quick to advocate jumping ship - too fast to assume the worst of motives - and too reflexive in their opposition to anything and everything. But if anyone thinks we can change the world and make the world a better place by marching lockstep behind anyone - they are part of the problem that goes much deeper than who wins what election. I don't know how a free society could create anyone who think like that. This sounds like Lenin's writings on "democratic centrism" not the thinking of people reared in a western democracy.