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Once again, it's in the nature of the beast. One party ( here the GOP ) succeeds by scaring people while the other party survives by enabling its abusive partner. Since 1864, the Republicans have used - and mostly abused - patriotism to attack Democrats. Unfortunately, the Democrats are institutionally incapable of seeing beyond the next election. This means they are unable to see that in a multi-party system the tactic of divide to conquer wouldn't work. In fact, they would dominate in nearly every election.
We do want the Democrats in the White House. We just want to make sure everyone else gets heard too.
