Reply #28: The left fringe is but one minority of many in the Democratic Party [View All]

[MurikanDemocrat]

They are only as relevant as the other competing minorities; Women, Blacks, Hispanics, GLBTs, labor, Native Americans, moderates, environmentalists, southerner's, north-eastern liberals, and other minorities.

The rest of us must compromise, we never get everything we want, but we persevere and we stay together for the common good. We don't splinter off into other Parties.

But the left fringe, nooooo, we must have our way, we must have our candidate, we must have our agenda, it supersedes the rights and the values of all others, and the common good of all. If we don't get our way, we will not tolerate small steps, but advocate for complete destruction of the entire system so that ALL Democrats suffer, particularly the neediest among us, so that our vengeance can be sated.

And from the destruction we will build a new Party, so the martyrs say. But even this new Party will not resemble utopia of their idealistic and altruistic dreams, for they are not grounded in realities, or the pragmatisms required to juggle the competing interests of many competing minorities.