Reply #76: I'm with you on this one. [View All]

[The Minus World]

All of this talk about Democrats "finding their values" is hilarious. Our values have always been static and readily identifiable - yet, they are distorted in the right-wing wind-tunnel, and hardly ever represented in the mainstream.

Modern Democratic values include the dispensation of the truth, and acceptance and understanding over xenophobia and bigotry. The pursuit of raw information, rather than spin; the love of learning and analysis; the little tolerance for the bombast and self-inflation of the GOP - that's what attracted me to this party in the first place.

If our move is to scrap those concepts and move towards an exclusionary party, dropping our variegated constituents like weighted sandbags as we attempt to ascend to the heights attained by GOP hypocrisy, we will become as unappetizing as the party we aim to defeat.

Not to mention the fact that we won.