Reply #1: I agree although I cannot be happy about agreeing. [View All]

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It almost seems that some want to impose a purity test on the Democratic party and DU.

I never thought I'd see the day when the ideological or any other form of "purity" test would be a part of the Democratic party.

When you look around a gathering of Democrats your going to find people of all colors, all ethnicities and certainly there will also be a wide variety of opinion on matters ranging from war to choice to the economy and to any subject that might be considered even tangentially political.

Those differences are what has made us the true "Big Tent" party. We have always bickered over issues great and small but in the end we always remembered that our hearts were in the right place in spite of our differences because we have always striven for a "more perfect union" and justice for people of all stripe.

Now we seem headed down a path where many would banish anyone not "up to their standards" of liberalism or progressiveness. Disagreement is taken to be betrayal. Discussion based on reason is passe. Emotion rules.

I don't know where DU, the Democratic Party or, for that matter, I may be headed but it seems that we a coming to a fork in the road and I may take it!