Reply #13: I largely agree and even if forced you have to be willing to fight battles

[TheKentuckian]

that might be lost.

The obsession with going "undefeated" and getting "something" passed can lead to our undoing by muddying and hobbling our ideas and policies into ineffectiveness or worse twisted mockeries that move us toward a less perfect Union that facilitates the concentration of resources and power in our country.

Real party unity is working as one to push our leaders to make the structural reforms that will promote our prosperity in both butter and soul for the next generations rather than supporting and coddling our guys perpetuate and tinker with a wholly failed ideology in a lamebrained effort to supposedly defeat it.

Either way it's a bunch of old bullshit. Either it's all theater or we allow our representatives that we work for, endorse, and vote for to play Alan Colmes to the Republican's Hannity year after tedious year all the while parroting more of their demonstrably false and failed ideology.

It is also our civic duty to not allow either set of shenanigans, no matter how awful the Republicans are at the time (and they generally are always crap).