Reply #12: It IS like herding cats, isn't it!

[davsand]

I joke that if they announced the world was ending in two hours that the local Dems would call a meeting to discuss and debate for 90 minutes how they feel about it THEN they'd issue a statement...

I feel we lose something if we don't fight it out "inside the family" but I also think we Dems form a circular firing squad all too often. I am encouraged at the passion I see from the folks new to the political process (as someone who has been at this for a long time I find that political dreams often fall prey to memories of prior losses!) but I am also worried that these new voices will not be able to sustain for very long. Unity suffers in that kind of environ.

In some company I am viewed as being a (gasp!) Socialist. In other company I am seen as being somehow not liberal enough. It isn't that I define myself (or even really care how others view me if I'm being honest about it) with these terms, but it IS how the discussion is being framed inside our own party.

So who is doing it? WHO defines us, who do they do it, and how do we stop them?


Laura