Reply #28: I disagree ... [View All]

I believe MOST of the Republican voters constitute a fairly homogenous group of "believers". Yes, they do tend to vote for policies that are against their best interest. But they're told that those policies ARE in their best interest. Or they fool themselves (through vanity) into believing they are (or will be) among "the chosen", therefore they should favor policies the exclusively benefit "the chosen".

As I listened to Sean Hannity on "The Majority Report", I was forced to agree with him on a point. He charactarized the Dems as a collection of special interest groups. In this case, special meaning "focused". Would the Gay alliance vote Democratic if the Dems favored the gay marriage bans??? Would NOW support Dems if they caved in to the anti-abortion crowd??? Would the environmentalists support Dems if they sacrificed conservation???

The answer on most fronts is that they are deal breakers. To me, the Democratic community seem far more heterogenous.

I wise man once said "I don't belong to an organized political party ... I'm a Democrat". I think those words are still true today. Republicans a defined group. Democrats are whats left over.

I think diversity IS a strength. But at a certain point, voters have to realize that politics is NOT a buffet. You get to choose between a nice entree with a crappy desert, or a nice desert teamed with a lousy entre.

Voting to punish a candidate only punishes the party. In the end, we must all be willing to sacrifice our "favorite issue" for the greater good of the whole. The job of the activist is to create enough political consensus to move their issue forward with popular support.