Reply #90: Don't think being a Democrat requires you to march in lockstep.

[NinetySix]

The beauty of Democrats is that there's LOTS of room for disagreement. Republicans like to paint Dems as uniformly subscribing to one single, unyeilding point of view. That seems a better description of them, and it worked well for a while, like 25 years or so, but that orthodoxy is an albatross around their necks, and their intolerance and exclusivity are wearing that once Grand Old Party to dust.

Hold your own opinions and defend them vigorously, but understand that here and in the Party, there's always room for dissent. Only heterodoxy is orthodox.