I read your post twice - you speak with a lot of reason.
I appreciate your thinking and your words.
Well done.
It's the result of doing a lot of thinking on the topic, and having experienced the same feelings for some time now.
I think a lot of people who have not yet gone through the meat grinder here, will do so in the coming months, and I thought I would comment on it.
As to a solution to the problem, I have none. Well...............I have one.
The solution will be clear when one faction or another routs the other and takes the movement in the direction it wants with solid leadership.
Right now, there is no leadership, since Bush has been deballed and lamed only months after being elected to his second term during his SCOTUS picks by the social tightie righties, and the party is in shambles as a result. It was the beginning of a serial attack on the President and the leader of the party. Worse than the reality of it, it happened during wartime and the Dem's took advantage of the weakness.
I suspect it will remain in shambles until we hate democrats more than we hate each other.
That will happen eventually. When.......I don't know.