General Discussion

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It isn't purity. Its bias.

It is football.

My person isn't winning and the narrative has shifted, so we're gonna punt and call it a purity test. Wah wah wah.

I don't need purity, I need outcomes.

I don't want a messiah. I don't care if it is Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama. I want outcomes. I want my representatives to advocate for policies in line with my ideology and my vision for governance.

I don't care what they say behind the scenes. I don't care if they believe in their heart of hearts what they say with their mouth of mouths. As long as they commit no crimes, abuse no one, and demonstrate basic humanity, they are nothing more than vehicles for policy outcomes.

I care that I get to be a part of a party that has an agenda that stops murder by Federal agents, that feeds kids in poverty, that protects the right for a woman to get an abortion (no hedging), that says the cancer in our politics is money, and that acknowledges genocide.

I also like being part of a party that is willing to embrace reality and not meekly look backward, in the hopes that some politics from a bygone era has returned from the dead and is catching up with the times.

There are those on this forum that assert that the desire for Democrats to be more forward thinking is a purity test, but when the electorate of a state demonstrate this point, all of a sudden it is perfectly fine to call into question the motivations of someone running under our banner.

It is immensely frustrating to read here the smarm and eye-rolling condescension when we are on the cusp of victory and we are browbeat into denying that a victory is, in fact, just a priori betrayal.

TL,DR - Demanding action from leadership isn't a purity test. Refusing to support a Democrat because of 'vibes' is.