By Steve Hynd.
Take a bow, John Aravosis, for distilling sense from all the crap being talked:
if so many Democrats are disaffected that their lack of support is harming someone's chances at re-election, the person to blame isn't the voters, it's the politicians who let them down. You earn my vote, you don't own it.
Spot on, despite the fearmongering attempts every two years to call each election the "most important election EVAH!"
Tomorrow the post-mortems begin. As ever, there will be three camps. One will say the left must support Dems come what may because "it will always be worse with Republicans in power". Call that the "he loves me, really" voice. One will say that the left must force the Democratic Party to listen to its agenda, even though all the evidence says that the Dems will never seriously do so. Call that the "he'd really love me if I just said things right" voice. The third camp, of which I am a member for reasons I've written about often enough over the years, says the left must take a deep breath, ditch the abusive relationship with the Dems and strike out on its own, despite the many obvious hardships of doing so. Unfortunately, the third voice is the smallest - it always is with abused spouses.
Somehow the professional political class seem mostly to forget those highlighted 8 words especially as they might be wrenched from the trough and have to endure a nanosecond before joining a lobbyist crew and start to openly bribe former pals, enemies & colleagues.
ReplyDeleteAravosis' remark applies to Democrats. Republicans tend to be team players by nature. They would sacrifice their firstborn before crossing party lines. When they get independent, they become tea partiers. Which may mess with party plans sometimes, and sometimes not. But it still gets the vote out.
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