Reply #56: who are the Democrats? [View All]

[paulk]

You talk as if the party is some kind of monolithic organization with someone (or some group) at the top telling everyone else what to do.

The party isn't that at all - it's a loose coalition of sometimes disparate groups banding together toward some common goal - and that goal might not be the same for everyone in that group. And it's a constant battle between those groups in the coalition to get the items most important to them to the forefront.

One of the reasons the more conservative factions in the Democratic party have been successful in getting their POV implemented is because they can deliver money and votes, and like Pepperbelly says upthread -that's what matters in politics. If you don't like it, then you need to find a way to provide the party with money and votes. It's really that simple.

All else is pissing in the wind, and DU has become a veritable deluge lately.