Reply #78: You may mean that now but it isn't what you SAID

[kenny blankenship]

you used cross-section in reference to the Democratic Party. You also used base in reference to the Democratic Party.

In no party whose membership is large enough to overflow a classroom would the base of the party have all its attitudes and policy preferences mirrored by the average or full cross-section of its membership.

Questions can only be clear if the terms used in them are clear. You can't interchangeably use two terms whose meanings are strongly contrary to one another and still be clear.

Unless you want to be clear about being willing to use duplicitous and misleading language to bludgeon the base into silent submission to the cross-section. On that score you and your question are ringing out like a silver bell.