Reply #21: you can't govern if you don't win

[AtomicKitten]

Your rather simplistic assessment of my statement speaks more to the "us versus them" mindset that seems to permeate the rhetoric of the so-called activists, the "you're either with us or against us" that is used as a cudgel intraparty.

The problem is there is a myriad of opinion here at DU, just like "out there." It is not the DLC/corporatists vs the activists although that seems to be the basis for the frequent calls to purge the party. I, in fact, have had the former epithet carelessly lobbed at me simply because I don't hate the DLC. I have a nonplussed reaction to their existence in the Democratic Party. They have some good ideas and some terrible ideas, but that holds true for all mindsets within the party (and there are many) including the activists.

I consider myself a liberal, always have, and if the behavior of some of the so-called activists here at DU is indicative of that subsect, always will. I am more interested right now in taking the country back from the fundie whackjobs than scoring points against someone within the party I disagree with ideologically. But that's me.