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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." — Abraham Lincoln
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"People, I just want to say, can't we all get along? Can't we all get along?" — Rodney King
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The factorization, fractalization of the Democratic Party is the worst I’ve seen in my lifetime, and I’m very old. Growing up in New York City, I remember on the ballot there was the Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, and yes the Socialist Party. Today, on the ballot there is one line, the Democratic Party, but are really one party, a coalition of like minded voters for the common good?
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Have we broken off into cults of our own? There are the Bernie's, Elizabeth’s, African Americans, LatinX, Jewish, elderly, environmentalists, Gen X, Y, and Z, and many more factions. All want their issues to be all our issues. All, one time or another, threaten to leave the party or hold it hostage if they don’t get what they want.
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Republicans don’t need speech writers as we as a party give them all the tropes and memes they need to riff on. Socialism, defund the police, take away your doctor, green new deal, kill the economy, all lives matter, etc., etc., etc.
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Sure, these agendas resonate within some groups, some districts, but nationally they are clubs that Republicans bludgeon all of our candidates with, up and down the ticket.
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How many elections do we have to lose, how many Trumps need to be elected before we get it. How long before we can agree on a unified message that will appeal to all Americans of all stripes and persuasions?
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Or maybe we need to embrace the unthinkable, divide up into individual parties, left to pursue their own personal agendas.
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Whatever the answer is; what we have, where we are, now, isn’t working.