This came from a post I contributed to another thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8695484#8695782There were several comments about making it an OP. So, what the heck? I thought I just might...
It's about how there are just some people who are impossible to please:
Especially when you have your own personal agenda and your own personal stake in the outcome. In this case it's taken to an extreme because the personal agenda is rather twisted (racism, hatred, jingoism, religious judgmentalism, and more) and the outcome has NOT reinforced it. He's not their man, and he's so dramatically outside the parameters of their definition of their man that they're incapable of reconciling it. You hate and fear what you don't understand. If you're hardwired to be not-understanding of the idea of blacks making so much progress in this country that they've finally broken the ultimate glass ceiling, you're apt to find it nearly impossible to accept it. Something that's unthinkable is very hard to accept when it actually comes to pass anyway.
I'm guessing that perhaps it's come to an extreme that may be almost a tipping point by now. Consider: within the space of just a week, we've seen the wrong-wingers cheering and high-fiving when Chicago/America/Obama did not win the 2016 Olympics, FOLLOWED BY their exploding in near-cataclysmic fury after Obama was named winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Now, ask yourself something about those people. How does this make them look? What does this do for their public persona? Would you want to be seen with these people? Would you want your name attached to that kind of behavioral display? Would you be proud to be part of that? Could you see yourself being part of that? For me, it's a default into motherhood - I go straight to "who the hell brought them up???"
Perhaps these folks don't feel it. After all, they appear to be VERY heavily-invested in this behavior. For them, it appears to be deeply personal, based on intensely-clung-to and long-cherished beliefs. BUT THE REST OF US DO. Remember, we're talking about a sliver of the population. Alan Grayson made a very shrewd and adept point about this, using Olympia Snowe. Who, he correctly pointed out, represents a TEENSY SLIVER of the American population. How is it that pleasing her somehow has to outweigh pleasing MANY MULTIPLE MILLIONS of Americans ALL OVER THE ENTIRE FREAKIN' COUNTRY - yes, even including her own state of Maine. I have relatives there myself. I know how they feel! The teabaggers and town hall hissy-fitters and other assorted groups of adult infants with their public snits and temper tantrums actually comprise a VERY TINY MINORITY!!! Represented by a political party that is, itself, a MINORITY!!! Why are we accommodating them? Especially when they behave so shamefully? Consider how that behavior makes them look! Like goons, thugs, pigs, and spoiled brats throwing hissy-fits because they didn't get their way. Admirable? You tell me.
The adults among us, all the rest of us wearing our proverbial big-boy pants, don't behave that way - for a reason. Because WE'RE the adults who are back in charge (as the last regime boasted but didn't deliver). We're the ones acting like adults while they're yowling and kicking and flopping all over the floor in the middle of the room like a bunch of poorly-raised three-year-olds, demanding all the attention.
So maybe it's a good thing, this additional out-of-power example of CONservative overreach. Because by now, consider how it's making them look. Again, the most recent statements in the House by Alan Grayson - reminding us how it's become clear by now: WHATEVER Obama might do, these assholes will simply oppose. Just for the sheer joy of being oppositional. That's all they're in it for. Whatever he does, they'll be against, just because it's him. He orders a BLT? They'll try to ban bacon. Just because it's him there and not the guy they thought should win. And they called us "Sore Losermen"! They don't want to help. They don't want to try to make improvements for anyone. They don't care about what their constituents really need or what they're asking for. "Country First" MY ASS. They should rightfully admit they lied about that - that it's really "Party First". But they won't - because truth is relative to them, and they'll lie if lying will make the nonmatching puzzle pieces fit by sheer force. They used to accuse Bill Clinton of "situational ethics" - as they called it. Well, they've become its poster children.
Might become a very beneficial thing, especially as we edge closer and closer to another campaign year. Just think how all this is making them look.
And now they've topped it all off with a nice raspberry on top - about the Nobel Frickin' PEACE PRIZE forcryingoutloud. Really. How does this make them look?
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