But structurally, Democrats lack the unity needed to enforce a boycott of this sort.
Many Syrians say the group's members have been fixated more on positioning themselves for jobs in a new government than on forging the unity needed to defeat the Assad government.
"Remember Pearl Harbor" was first a call to do battle, of course, to keep fresh the shock and rage and to summon the unity needed to win a long, exhausting war.
The jockeying has alienated many Syrians, particularly those inside, who complain that members of the fractious opposition exile group, the Syrian National Council, are fixated more on grabbing appointments that they can leverage into domestic influence later than on forging the unity needed to defeat the government.
Previous experiments with Third Front governments have ended in disaster, as their fractured, ideologically disconnected members have been unable to muster the unity needed to govern.
Arguments over curriculum or programmatic changes for the "best interest" of the students by people who have no education, participation or background in Ethnic Studies serve only to distract from the unity needed to refute an unjust piece of legislation that has no business in Tucson.
The highly unusual purge has raised questions about whether the party can restore the internal political unity needed to preserve its grip on power.
"The more complicated the international situation is," argued the paper, "the more calm, wisdom, and unity need to be shown by the Chinese people".Mixed in with all the nationalist bluster have been a few voices of moderation.
Tim Wise summarizes this vast literature, noting that during slavery, "the term 'white' to describe Europeans en masse was born as an umbrella term to capture the new pan-Euro unity needed to defend the system of African slavery and Indian genocide going on in the Americas.
Divided parties don't win elections, but the unity we need won't come through demands and threats.
