You want to talk "Unity"? Okay, let's talk about unity

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190. Exactly...

The left has been told for greater than 20 years to "get in line" with a party that, at its core, no longer resembles its former self. And yet, the left is expected to do so out of fear or the lesser of two evils. To echo your point, I think I speak for many on the left when I say that we aren't asking for ideological purity. What the left is asking is the party to move back to its roots. We shouldn't have to compromise with big business and lobbyists. We should respect and fight for the rights of labor. We should fight against racism, sexism, and homophobia at every turn. We should acknowledge that income inequality is tearing the social fabric of this country apart. We need to be smart with trade deals so that we don't lose jobs at a time where we can no longer afford to lose any more jobs. While that is just a scratch on the surface, those issues are very real with average Americans, and, frankly, Trump has been able to corrupt those concerns and morph them into his own movement. Until the party chooses to fight for the average citizen, and I truly mean fight, not just lip service, and puts that cause above catering to big business and Wall St because they are excellent sources of campaign donations, well those of us on the left will be left to make our own choices come election time and choose our own fights.