Bernie Sanders

love belonging to groups but because I feel working through one of the two major parties maximizes my, and its, power.

Unlike you, I couldn't disagree more with the second half of the removed post, which struck me as not only profoundly deluded but profoundly silly. I'm not a "Clintonite." That's silly. I'm an issues person. I confess that policy wonks appeal to me and rabble-rousing demagogues do not. I'm an egalitarian. I believe we need to destroy the metamillionaire classes before they destroy our democracy but that we must elect very ethical, smart, competent, knowledgeable people in order to do that.

And anyone who imagines they will need to go to war with me...well, will go the way of all the previous decades of silly, foolish people who felt the same way. Because they misunderstand their role compared all to the rest of the people who make up the party.

It's not that the many, very diverse groups -- over 100 million people now!, that make up the Democratic Party and/or call themselves independent but reliably vote Democrat -- like any peoples born of man, can't always use improvement. It's that WE have to do what we feel is best.

It can't be imposed by a hostile, arrogant, faction who foolishly imagine only they have the answers and must force them on everyone else. We're a tremendously inclusive party, they can be Democrats if that is their choice, but they can't rule. We collectively are the Democratic Party, not some ill-defined, resented "they," but US. And democracy rules in our party.