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In reply to the discussion: Something I Noticed regarding the Difference Between Democrats and Republicans [View all]Proud Liberal Dem
(24,402 posts)and I think that too, when you have the Republicans in all-out war against a President of your own party, there's a tendency to want to protect him from the slings and arrows coming at him/her so that he/she can get other, more important, things done. Maybe that might look like "blind support" but, at least for me, I don't want to see Democratic Presidency after Democratic Presidency torn down by the Republican Noise Machine, nor by anybody else over lack of ideological purity. I also feel like we won in 2008 and then a lot of people wanted to get every social ill from the last 30 years resolved and are getting mad that President Obama hasn't expended enough time and/or resources to tackle every single "bad" thing out there at once despite the practical impossibility of doing so, particularly after 2010 when he got severely hobbled by a bad election of a bunch of right-wing anarchists obsessed with obstructionism, which has continued to persist to this day. We need to work hard(er) at the state and local levels and root out these teabaggers and elect people whom will support our goals and aims and do what we can to support President Obama as he fights off Republican obstructionism towards achieving his broader goals which, in general, I think we all agree with.