Reply #65: Party Discipline

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Party discipline requires that Democrats who betray core values have to be brought back into line. In 1968, Humphrey's support of the war cost him the votes he needed to win the election. Instead of blaming the antiwar Democrats who sat out the race, we should blame the party members who foolishly believed the party could afford such a big risk.

I've always been a Democrat, but I won't support candidates who offend my sense of what being a Democrat means. The Vietnam war was not as Humphrey described it, "glorious". It was horrible. I look back on that 1968 election with some satisfaction. Humphrey ignored us, and we punished him.