mainejeff wrote:89Hen wrote:
So in one breath you accuse the entire GOP for being against equality and protection of the environment, but now you say there are GOP members who are for them?
But I do agree with you that that there is no dissent allowed in the Dem Party.

You don't have much reading comprehension do you? I was simply stating that the Democratic Party consistently states and supports certain basic things.....they know who they are. The Republican Party (as an organized political party) is truly **** up right now. You are in denial if you don't agree with that.
Maybe you should stop letting your blind hatred of me screw with your ability to disseminate information.
While I'll buy the idea that the Democratic party is more cohesive than the GOP is right now, I'd argue that they stand for general ideas, but are just as confused and divided over how to translate those grand ideas into actual, actionable things. Take gun control. All Democrats are supposedly for "common-sense gun laws". I mean, who can be against that, it's common sense, right? Now, what does that actually mean? Some are for banning guns that look like military guns. Some are for universal background checks. Some are for mental health restrictions on gun ownership (and in that group there's a wide range of what consititutes actionable mental health). Some are for out and out banning of all guns. It's such a big tent that while there's agreement over the "common-sense" idea there's a wide gulf over what to actually do.
And frankly, the biggest thing holding the Democratic Party together right now is the hatred of all things Trump. It's like how the GOP was able to pull together all those folks who didn't like Obama and how the Dems before that were able to pull together all the folks who hated Dubya. There is some advantage in a shared mission that the party out of the White House has. It's why you don't see one party have more than 2 or 3 terms in a row in control of the White House.