I promise this post is not intended to piss people off, BUT...just suppose for a second

[MrPurple]

28. If Hillary had become President, the screeching attacks from the right would be so intense...

that we would be defending her out of a reflex to the insanity. I'm a Democrat and voted for Obama and Hillary (and every nominee since Dukakis), but you kind of seem to be saying that once Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, it meant that anyone who criticized the flaws in the previous Weimar Republic government were wasting their effort because they didn't know how much worse they could have it.

I'm new to DU since the election, but I find the constant drama between HRC & BrSd (not using their names because I see so many people say that they're filtering out posts with references to them) supporters absurd. It's perfectly fine to criticize what you see as flaws in your party. You should fight for your vision of how things should be. The discussions about the merits of the different wings of the Democratic party are healthy, so long as you support the nominee when the time comes. I like reading and thinking about those debates; tradeoffs between purity and electability are a worhty topic. What's hard to read are the backbiting replies castigating people for supporting supporting BrSd's critiques, or for feeling that Hillary was a better option.

I don't see why people with differing opinions on that can't have intelligent discussions about it, while ALSO fighting against the bloated disgrace in the White House. I supported Obama, but also, when I was unhappy with policies of his, I said so. For me, when the Republicans took Congress in 2010, I was pissed that he didn't play hardball and let the Bush tax cuts expire and put the Republicans in the position of having everyone's taxes go up because they weren't willing to settle for an option where taxes would only go up on people making over 250K instead.

Yeah, you should back your party when the time comes (and the vast majority do), but if you discourage debate on what the soul of a party should be, then it will have no soul.