Live by party discipline, and die by it. I hope that this year marks the permanent decline of the Democratic Party, although it won't. It stands for everything that has harmed America and no longer stands for the things it did that helped us win WWII and the Cold War. It's like the rotten, termite ridden leg of a three legged stool. Unless it rids itself of its progressive base and returns to the belief in government by the people, rather than by the eggheads and technocrats, it will destroy this country.