Democrats are often hurt by the fact that they engage in open discourse stretching from ultra-progressive to moderately conservative. Although laudable, it doesn't create party unity and often causes problems at the polls. However, it's the willingness to explore all sides of an issue that often sets Democrats apart from Republicans.
To be fair, there is also a certain amount of intransigence on the part of Democratic Party leadership and a need for them to be vigilant that communication, tolerance and willingness to support change doesn't disintegrate. Getting rid of all super delagates would be a start.
" ...The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women..."
As a reader of this publication where do you feel you fit in openness and willingness to listen and compromise with others for the greater good?
Below a quote to read carefully. Judge Hand was not referring to any political party. Who do you think the statement most closely describes and is this a world that we should tolerate?
"Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers."
In the quote above I extrapolate the word "market," to be the Republican party. What's your opinion?
Below is a thoughtful statement about our Constitution and its creators. Kind of ironic that most Republicans are strict constitutional originalists.
"We believe... the men who met in 1787 to make our Constitution... made the best political document ever made; but, remember, they did so... because they were great compromisers... The condition of our survival... is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world..."
"There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally."
If only SCOTUS conservatives and the Republicans adhered to this philosophy!
The quote below seems to have foreshadowed President Trump's outlook. I'm guessing he might approve of the cause of Judge Hand's frustration.
"I believe that the community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence, where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose." (Click on page 3 now)
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