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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've been getting this a lot lately.
Time to address it head on.
"What's the deal with you Democrats, anyway? Why do you need to be so negative and pessimistic about Trump? We may not have liked Obama, but we were never so loud and radical and downright ornery as you are! Why can't you give the guy a chance like we did for the sake of the country?!?"
Well. Overlooking the obvious selective memory, revisionist history, and euphoric recall... oh, heck, let's just call it "bullshit"....
Do you realize what you really just told me?
YOU LIKED MOST EVERYTHING OBAMA DID.
Yeah, I'll let that sink in for a moment.
It's very obvious that you approved of most of Obama's agenda, or at least you didn't disapprove of it enough to do anything meaningful about it. Some passive-aggressive whining and some keyboard crusading doesn't count.
If you seriously saw anything Obama did as a real threat to the country, you'd be doing the same thing the left is doing now: taking it to the streets.
So climb down off the high horse. Don't make a virtue out of your indifference. Your past failure to act isn't any sign of patriotism or moral superiority - it simply means you didn't mind Obama much at all.
Just my .02.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)as soon as I see his complete tax returns. Will that happen in the next 4 years?
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)This country is broken and FUBAR!
Different Drummer
(7,614 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)They literally destroyed everything he did. Benghazi? Result of republicans cutting funding for embassy security. Obamacare? Result of republicans whittling down Obama's single payer proposal into nothingness. Fast and furious? More republican bullshit conspiracies.