She didn’t say “more diverse”, she said “span a much wider range of views”. These are not the same. When you say “more diverse”, people think of ethnic, racial, gender, religious and geographic diversity, which people love to cheer for, but which are all irrelevant to the topic of this article. “Wider range of views,” as used here, means more different positions advocated. That’s neither inherently good nor inherently bad.
One common characterization of the liberal/conservative spectrum is that conservatives favor stability, and liberals favor change. In the space of possible answers to a question, the status quo is one answer, and change is every other answer. So liberals span a wider range of views, and the Democratic party identifies as liberal.
The rest of what you wrote on this thread seems to flow from this bit of confusion. You also talk a bit about “tolerance”, which is an orthogonal issue; a group may all agree and be tolerant of disagreement, or all disagree and be tolerant, or all agree and be intolerant, or all disagree and be intolerant. SarahC made no claim as to which of these categories either party falls into, and neither will I.
She didn’t say “more diverse”, she said “span a much wider range of views”. These are not the same. When you say “more diverse”, people think of ethnic, racial, gender, religious and geographic diversity, which people love to cheer for, but which are all irrelevant to the topic of this article. “Wider range of views,” as used here, means more different positions advocated. That’s neither inherently good nor inherently bad.
One common characterization of the liberal/conservative spectrum is that conservatives favor stability, and liberals favor change. In the space of possible answers to a question, the status quo is one answer, and change is every other answer. So liberals span a wider range of views, and the Democratic party identifies as liberal.
The rest of what you wrote on this thread seems to flow from this bit of confusion. You also talk a bit about “tolerance”, which is an orthogonal issue; a group may all agree and be tolerant of disagreement, or all disagree and be tolerant, or all agree and be intolerant, or all disagree and be intolerant. SarahC made no claim as to which of these categories either party falls into, and neither will I.