Dude, you are dyed in the wool Democrat. You see everything in a R vs D lens. Politics and ideology is a team sport with you. You don't care who does what as long as the Ds are winning and the Rs are losing, but everything is foul when it's the other way around.
Obviously those on the left should aspire to holding their own side accountable, but what exactly is the problem with being a dyed in the wool Democrat?
BP didn’t say there was. It was everything that followed that he said was problematic. It wasn’t even about thinking “your side” is on the right side — it was about the fact that it isn’t even about right or wrong, it’s about left and right. It’s the ultimate us vs. them, and the ultimate test of character is found parenthetically after one’s name.
I find it very very very hard to believe a political party could encapsulate any single person's values enough, even in a single moment, not to mention over any amount of time, enough that any reasonable person could possibly consider themself a "Democrat" or "Republican." Of course, unless doing so was politically advantageous because that person was actually getting material support from their party because they were involved in politics professionally.
That's a truly strange way to look at party membership. You could say the same thing about literally any organisation or group a person may choose to identity with. Of course it's impossible for a party made up of millions of people to perfectly capture the views of any single individual.
When political parties shift, sometime more dramatically than others, and take their followers with them... well. What's childish?
And often times they shift and lose their followers along the way. I'm not sure what your point is here. Over time, due to demographic change or other factors an entire population's values may shift, this doesn't make them hapless sheep at the mercy of their political parties.
