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In reply to the discussion: Why the arguments of Obama's defenders leave many cold. [View all]jpgray
(27,831 posts)I am sorry that this OP has been so hurtful.
What should be impossible to ignore is that our party and the country can head into complete disaster all while nominating and electing candidates superior to those of the opposition. We could elect Democratic presidents for the next eighteen years and still lose the New Deal. If comparison to the alternative is the only standard, the principles of the party are changeable for the worse indefinitely, so long as the party platform of the Republicans remains still worse.
It is our responsibility to elect the superior candidate, which will be Obama. It is also our responsibility to ensure we do not lose but gain ground on fundamental Democratic principles. With each election we should be making progress on fundamental values. We should not take pride that we have ceded less ground than we might have done each election, because after several elections we will be far from the values that made our party in the first place.