Reply #103: it is the other way around [View All]

[Two Americas]

The dominant (barely) faction in the party does not have the right to hold all of the rest of us hostage. That is what is happening.

Every citizen has the right - and the duty and obligation - to be heard and to demand that they are represented. That isn't holding anyone hostage, that is good citizenship. Demanding conformity - and that is what the calls for loyalty and unity are - is the opposite of that. It is suppressive and it is holding people hostage, merely because they are weaker or fewer in number.