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A necessary division in the Democratic Party

Published September 28. 2019 06:28AM

The text below is an opinion letter that I wrote after seeing a notice saying you were accepting political opinion letters because of the elections coming up. In light of the recent Democratic debate it has become very clear that the Democratic Party is going through somewhat of a civil war.

On one side you have the new far-left candidates, and on the other you have more centrist candidates which represent somewhat of an old guard in the Democratic Party. Both sides have been figuratively tearing each other apart, and even members of what seem the same division attack each other in the midst of the chaos.

These events make it very clear that it is time for the Democratic Party to split in two. While it may seem political suicide, it might very well work out in favor of the left if they hope to win the election. Some think that split would divide the votes too much, and this would instantly give the election to President Trump, and this would be a valid concern if the two sides hadn’t already proven that they don’t always vote together.

A prime example of this is the 2016 elections where many people who voted for Bernie Sanders felt cheated and chose not to vote for Hillary Clinton. Creating a split would allow for the two candidates to work together while also allowing them to disagree instead of having to blindly follow the other’s lead to project a more unified Democratic Party. A split also allows for the resources of the two sides not to be stretched so thin and allow for the American voters to decide which faction they wish to support. This solution ultimately makes more sense for what the Founding Fathers intended. They wanted a nonpartisan government, and by dividing the parties you get something closer to that original idea without completely destroying the modern system.

Tanner Lux

Jim Thorpe

Comments
The democrats are absolutely split, and the split is as easy as the democratic socialists vs the democrat party. I’m not sure why the democrats are looked at as our saviors anyway? Look at their line up, a cavalcade of misfits.

People refer to Trump as a clown, but frankly the current democrats are the whole circus and yet nobody “bats” an eye. I personally would have no problem voting democrat if they would simply return to reality on their platforms. Free college, free healthcare, free child care , more more more more government. How does a society pay for all these “freebies “? Through taxes, plain and simple, and we all will be taxed to the hilt to pay for the freebies.
The GOP isn’t far behind either but I have a better proposal, how about we get the government off the backs of private individuals and let people make their own decisions? There’s an interesting idea !
I'm with you on that Tony. Less Government. Take the federal government back to what the Constitution originally granted it to be. I thought the people would unite on the TEA (taxed enough already) Party, but they were falsely demonized as radicals, and the too many people bought in to the lies. I'm a member of the TEA Party who votes conservatively. It just makes sense for me... but that's me.
A split is healthy. The GOP has no room for dissent anymore which is why I left. If you don’t agree with the president you get primaried or twitttered. What is going on amongst the democrats is debate on its platform...nothing wrong with that
Divide and conquer. Most of the Democratic Party is in a ditch of socialism. They have veered so far off the norm that their President a few years ago, Barrak Obama, would be standing alone on the podium. Open borders, infanticide, green new deal lunacy, radical socialism ideas and fake impeachment theatrics have contributed to place a San Andreas fault in the middle of the platform. This will turn out to be an epic disaster just like the Mueller Report. Failure beyond belief. President Trump raised $125 Million this quarter. That is multiples more than all of the socialistic tax cravers combined. Ha.
здоровье! No divisions in GOP! The Minsk Mafia is thick as thieves! Pierogies, Slovenian Prostitutes and Political Corruption! Nozdrowie, Czar trumpski!
This is the level of intelligence we can expect on times news comments again, carbon county coal crackers pretending to be Russian to win arguments. Almost like dating a girl from a different school and you haven’t met her.... but she’s real !
First it was diggerout. DO.Expelled for vulgar rude punk like posts.
Second it was Trumping to collusions. T2C. Similarly expelled...lesson unlearned.
Now, as a third attempt we present to all TN readers, the latest in mental dysfunction on display...CT, Comrade Trumpski, a similar fraud upon the intellect of anyone with mental standards at all. Third time is the charm! Welcome CT! Clean up your dirty act! I will tie your beloved babushka in a knot and stuff it up your dirty a**.

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