At the risk of being alerted, banned, ....

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47. Why would I alert it? Disagree with most of it, but would never alert it.

I've been with DU a very long time as well. I think something very different is happening here than back in the early years.

We were united against a GW administration. However something much more insidious is happening now. A testing of the boundaries of progressives and neoliberals. This is a good thing and should be electric. Sanders is speaking of a Revolution, not a tea party (unless of the kind that helped foment the American Revolution when Bostoners threw tea into the harbor in revolt of essentially corps that were gouging Americans)

See where we part ways is when you state I am a PROUD DEMOCRAT! I support my party. I would say it a little differently I am a PROUD DEMOCRAT! I support the party exemplified by those Democrats who have upheld the best in democratic principles like FDR and JFK and LBJ's Great society programs. Those democrats who don't walk lock stock in single file like ants, but are willing to step out and fight for principles that enrich our Democratic Party, not move it further right.

I admire your passion, but I think this is a battle for what it means to be a Democrat today so that we are voting for more than a candidate with simply a "D" beside their name. It's the principles that make the Democratic Party. Not the Party that makes one a Democrat.

I'm done supporting candidates who violate core democratic principles and who pursue incrementalism, and hawkish foreign policies and who admire men that literally could be tried as war criminals or compromise their values by accepting bribes from large corporations. Sanders has indeed created a revolution of New Democrats. Those who don't accept the "lesser of two evils" proposition, and demand a new world that fights hard for change rather than appeasing rhetoric during election time.

So why would I alert you?