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Yes, last night sucked. But it was SUPPOSED to suck. It is a two party system. If voters are unhappy with the status quo there is only one other game in town. Like Chris Rock said: "Obama didn't cure cancer fast enough! I'm voting for cancer!"
We can blame the voters if we must. But blaming the Dems for not being progressive enough? B.S. Obama has had more fight in him in these past two years than he did for the entirety of his first term. Every day after 2011, I was worried what he was going to capitulate to the GOP with next. There was a knot in my stomach every time he went up against them. These Past two years? Never happened once. Once Obama trounced Romney he stopped trying to work with the Republicans and started working around them. Obama is not the problem. If the media reported on his accomplishments fairly his approval rating would be in the high 60's.
I just find it REALLY obnoxious that people at Daily Kos are playing the blame game and talking about how much the Democrats suck. That's what the Republicans WANT you to think, you mooks! All you're doing is playing into their hands and accepting their tiresome version of the narrative.
Democrats were always going to get creamed this year and there was nothing they could have done to prevent it. The GOP basically destroyed the country and the then blamed it on the Dems. I can understand how something like that can be successful. What I DON'T understand is why liberals always seem to accept the GOP narrative on the subject while bemoaning the fact that that is what the Dem politicians are doing. Self-unawareness is not strictly a GOP phenomenon.
Last night wasn't the end of the world. It was normal. In 2016 when the voters realize the GOP HASN'T fixed their problems, and has wasted all their time on impeachment proceedings, then we'll make gains and get back the Senate.
And then lose it again in 2018. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
These wild swings from one party to the next between midterms and Presidential years are going to be the new normal as long as the country sucks. And since the GOP is MAKING it suck, it's not going to change. This back and forth is the new normal. Liberals need to understand that and stop being such babies about the entire thing.
We can blame the voters if we must. But blaming the Dems for not being progressive enough? B.S. Obama has had more fight in him in these past two years than he did for the entirety of his first term. Every day after 2011, I was worried what he was going to capitulate to the GOP with next. There was a knot in my stomach every time he went up against them. These Past two years? Never happened once. Once Obama trounced Romney he stopped trying to work with the Republicans and started working around them. Obama is not the problem. If the media reported on his accomplishments fairly his approval rating would be in the high 60's.
I just find it REALLY obnoxious that people at Daily Kos are playing the blame game and talking about how much the Democrats suck. That's what the Republicans WANT you to think, you mooks! All you're doing is playing into their hands and accepting their tiresome version of the narrative.
Democrats were always going to get creamed this year and there was nothing they could have done to prevent it. The GOP basically destroyed the country and the then blamed it on the Dems. I can understand how something like that can be successful. What I DON'T understand is why liberals always seem to accept the GOP narrative on the subject while bemoaning the fact that that is what the Dem politicians are doing. Self-unawareness is not strictly a GOP phenomenon.
Last night wasn't the end of the world. It was normal. In 2016 when the voters realize the GOP HASN'T fixed their problems, and has wasted all their time on impeachment proceedings, then we'll make gains and get back the Senate.
And then lose it again in 2018. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
These wild swings from one party to the next between midterms and Presidential years are going to be the new normal as long as the country sucks. And since the GOP is MAKING it suck, it's not going to change. This back and forth is the new normal. Liberals need to understand that and stop being such babies about the entire thing.
