Reply #76: An excellent summation ...... I would add one more category .....

[Stinky The Clown]

"Democrats of Conscience" or maybe "Reasoned Democrats"

This group sees the party as the best way to achieve their long term goals (most all of which are on the agenda of your groups 2 and 3). They see that there are problems with the party and they see some shortcomings in the leadership and in the candidates. But they also see that, in the USA, with the system of governance we have, short of armed revolution, the change comes in small, incremental steps. And sometimes the steps are painful in their omission or commission.

So this group is not about the left/right continuum at all. It is about strategy for achieving the goal(s). It isn't emotional. (**Not** to say that the people within the group are unemotional.) The shortfall of this group is that they appear to those emotionally invested in an issue or issues as uncaring and unconcerned and cold hearted and uninformed and blindly faithful to the Party. In fact, they may or may not be. What they ARE committed to is winning so they can have the actual ability to actually make those actual incremental changes that move us, as humans and as a planet, forward.