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In reply to the discussion: Can the Democratic Party disapprove of something/someone and also not give up power? [View all]bigtree
(85,971 posts)47. keeping bad people in our party in power won't change the republican party
...it will just ensure racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic government.
But hey, you'll still have your party.
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ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
OP
Neither am I. When you find a political system that allows for the drafting of perfect candidates
LongtimeAZDem
Feb 2019
#6
Actually, yes. But, again, this is not about candidates for cannonization.
LongtimeAZDem
Feb 2019
#20
Rs are much more savvy about strategy, while "good guys finish last" Dems keep getting trampled on
EveHammond13
Feb 2019
#78
Asking that our candidates have no history of overt racism or misogyny is not asking for perfection.
LanternWaste
Feb 2019
#123
if the alternative is to richly reward a group of ultra-hypocritical ratfuckers
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#8
Hypocrisy isn't taking a sledge hammer to fruit flies. There's wisdom in moderation
uponit7771
Feb 2019
#9
Moderation here would be an investigation by the DNC like Ellison. White privilege wouldn't exist
uponit7771
Feb 2019
#19
all of the minorities in VA you would hand into the tender mercies of the GOP
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#27
Of course it's harder to be principled but principled doesn't mean taking a sledge hammer to fruit
uponit7771
Feb 2019
#32
And by the time we accomplish that change, my daughter will be facing a world in which
LongtimeAZDem
Feb 2019
#56
You don't get it; McCarthyist purity witch-hunts never stop with the bad cases
LongtimeAZDem
Feb 2019
#62
Absolutely!!! Very well stated. And we'd better start doing it! Loss of job for any ...
LAS14
Feb 2019
#5
Agreed. However, I don't think their hypocrisy justifies our hypocrisy.
In It to Win It
Feb 2019
#107
I think it has been proven that students chose the pictures for their page
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#108
I'll dig it up - supposedly the editor of the yearbook described the process
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#113
I'm fine with having a better/perfect person inhabit a Democratic governorship in VA
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#51
Neither will defenestrating every Democratic politician who has ever made a bad decision
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#54
we seem to have held up so far to the values people are demanding in Va. out of the elected Dems
bigtree
Feb 2019
#61
What needs to happen? Tom Perez needs to declare an approach - a fighting approach? I say yes.
EveHammond13
Feb 2019
#74