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Very good post, and I especially like the analogy to the relative strengths and weaknesses of the Union and Confederate armies.

You make a good case for category one, with some category two actions as needed. My only reservation about that is that there are GLBT people, artists and other creative people, minority people and poor people who are feeling so alienated and at risk now that life is already intolerable. The fear there is that they will become part of the acceptable casualties as we ride this out and hope for a rebirth of the party and a restoration of a civil democratic society. Are they - we - expendable as sacrifices for the greater good in the larger picture? My observation is that the "move on and work for 2006 and 2008" people seem to also be the ones who marginalize and trivialize the suffering of the least among us. If those marginalized people are ignored now by the influential people in the Democratic party, how much more will that be the case should the party strategy of compromise and incremental progress be successful? This leads some of us to wonder if we are being asked to wait longer than we can for a future - that may never come - and that may be an illusion in any case.