> [WS] Point taken, so let me rephrase my original argument. Criticism
> of Democrats by certain segments of the US left smack of mental
> rigidity of the "my way or highway" variety.
Gasp! You can't possibly be talking about Carroll and me, can you? If so, I think the imputation is unjust.
If anything, I'd say it's people wedded to the Democratic Party who exhibit the kind of mental rigidity you mention. They're the ones who insist that their own sheepish co-optation constitutes a model that everybody else must follow; unless you're tied to Obama like a tin can to a dog's tail, you're some kind of 'ultra-left' nut, and probably objectively Fascist, in fact.
Among people who agree that the Democracy Party isn't a worthwhile arena of political activity, there's a rather considerable diversity of views on every other topic. We non-Democrats hardly constitue a bloc.