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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Wait... you think this is a positive thing about the Republican model that Democrats should emulate? This tendency leads to absolute nutbars being nominated, and then embraced and thereby legitimized by the party. If you were making a top five list of ways the USA got to this ####ed-up state, this would be on it. Am I just not getting what you're saying here?
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No it's not a positive but it is a reality. Not that the Democrats should emulate then but I'm pointing out that the splintering of the Democrat party vs the homogenous nature of the Republican party is one of the reasons we will continue to lose. Republicans care about one thing: winning. They understand it's a binary system. One of two parties has to win. By their very nature Dems are idealists and idealists often refuse to bend even when it might be beneficial overall. No one is saying vote lock step with party but the my candidate or no one mentality of the Democrats hurts them.
What's better: Don wins and we are in the disaster we see now or calm down the Tea Party like rhetoric, get your party elected to the executive office, and then work towards more progressive goals?
Or do you think the Android like nature of the democratic party will win over the Apple like unity of the Republican party? In the end theory is great but practicality and reality have to set in eventually.