DNC Rule Change: Want Dem nomination for President? Must be a Democrat and run and serve as a Dem

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69. Or are they the result of Democrats attacking likeminded people.

Attacking people who agree with you in principle is not smart in my book.

The point in politics is to find common ground, shared values and ideas with potential voters, not to drive them away with rules that might threaten them or exclude them.

Differentiation does not invite voters who might otherwise join with us to vote for us.

If I were an registered as an independent, thinking about voting Democratic, this action might discourage me.

I've been a lifelong, very active Democrat. I think this is a defeatist measure. I have talked to voters, trying to persuade them to re-register as Democrats. This kind of measure divides the world all the more into "us" and "them." When you try to persuade people to join the Democratic Party, you point out all the ideas they share with other Democrats. This is about winning votes and elections, not excluding voters and candidates. It's a counterproductive move in my view. Makes utterly no sense if you think in terms of grass-roots, Democratic Party work like registering voters and tabling and going door-to-door.