Being an Obama supporter (maybe I find him a bit too moderate), I am pretty sure that the lefts version of unity is much the same as the rights: rememberng that there is considerably more that unites us than divides us, and agreeing on the things that we do agree on.
Having said that, unity for the sake of it seems like a bad idea. Dissent is still a duty as well as a right, for many reasons. One is that the ‘war of ideas’ is, or can be if it is done right, the very thing that makes us, left and right, stonger sperately and more united together. The right in America needs to get on with fighting the war of ideas as sson as it is back on its feet.
It will loose but fight on if only to remind the people why they don’t want to vote for the right. This is the minimum good that political honesty acheives but it is still worthwhile.
