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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)It would have been nice if you'd elucidated your reasoning in your OP, given the strife on this board about who is, and who is not, a "real" Democrat, these days. That kind of language can and often is perceived as divisive.
I think if you are a registered Democrat who votes for Democrats, you ARE a Democrat. I think trying to suggest that some Democrats are not "real," or are "bad," is a divisive and disruptive meme that is relentlessly deployed here to provoke angst, ire and in some cases, to devalue members of this community. Frankly, I am tired of it, and I don't think I'm alone.
That said, if your intent was not to disrupt and divide, I regret that your point wasn't terribly clear. All of us who vote for Democrats are "real" Democrats. We support the party platform. We have more in common than we have differences. The constant highlighting and carping about the differences--particularly when the commentary gets vitriolic--is wearying. I especially don't like it when historical figures are dragged up and pointed at, as though they are The Way And The Light. No one knows how an FDR or a (GOP) Lincoln or Thomas Slaveowner Jefferson would react to what is happening in this 21st Century. They were great leaders in their time--the operative phrase being In Their Time.