Reply #74: I see two messages in the OP [View All]

[noamnety]

1. That unsupported inaccurate attacks are inappropriate. We can all agree on that.

2. That something is wrong with YOU (the reader) if you won't eventually shut up and support a candidate who doesn't respect your basic human rights, if that's what the party decides is best for you. However, if you cannot commit to supporting in the general election any one of the presidential candidates who gets the Dem nomination, then there is something terribly wrong.

I am not on board with "presenting the American people with a united Democratic Party" - IF that means uniting with people who are continuing to support the war, either through rhetoric or funding, nor am I intending to "unite" with anyone toying with the idea of taking away my reproductive rights, nor am I uniting with anyone who opposes equal marriage rights.

The shut-up-and-unite meme is saying that as a whole, we need to quietly accept the slow slide to the right because it's better than a catastrophic fall to the right. At the end of the day, though, it's the same destination no matter what speed we're traveling at.

That frog just refuses to get out of the simmering water.