Reply #10: Of course we band together to win.

[OneThirty8]

That's the point of a party, but what do we win if we don't stand for something? If we don't all have enough in common, then we might as well be arbitrarily making teams like the gym teacher did for the football teams in P.E. class. We have goals, and we band together to try and get in and achieve them. It's not just about getting elected - it's about getting elected so we can make a change for the better.

What we need to do is stop letting the other team continue to make the rules of engagement. We need to force them to actually talk about the issues we care about instead of repeating sound-bites that do nothing but demonize us and our goals. They're too good at playing that way. They've made us all out to be a bunch of godless, hippie, liberal,non-troop-supportin', homosexual, baby-killers. I don't think that any one of us would argue that abortion is a pretty thing and that every girl should have at least one - quite the opposite, at least among people I know. We support the troops - that's why we don't want to keep sending them off to die. Many of us are religious, and the rest of us still have strong moral beliefs. Most of us are probably heterosexual, but recognize gay people as equal members of our society who are entitled to the same rights and privileges as the rest of us. We just need to be able to actually have this conversation. We need to force it upon the other side. And, we need to keep them so busy with the real argument that they don't run a campaign of character assassination and lies. That'll be the hard part, but I think we can do it. We're smart. We've got to put our brains to use. In an open and honest debate, we've got the upper hand. Combining our strengths to drag the other side onto our home court, kicking and screaming if need be, is the point of having a party, at least in my opinion.