Reply #41: It depends -- how badly do you want a one party state?

[dolstein]

The longer the Democratic Party is identified in the public mind as the party of war protestors and pacifists, the longer the Republican Party will dominate our government.

The simple truth is that very large segment of American electorate simply doesn't trust the Democratic Party to keep them safe. And if the Democratic Party can't pass that threshhold test, it can't win elections, no matter how appealing its economic or social policy agenda may be.

Of course, if you're a pacifist/war protestor type, and it certainly sounds like you are, you probably can't comprehend this. Hell, many Vietnam era war protestors still haven't figure out just how much damage their activities and the McCarthy and McGovern campaigns did to the Democratic Party.