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In reply to the discussion: Please take 5 minutes to read an incredible Post [View all]gtar100
(4,192 posts)There's some history lessons in here I can attest to as being spot on truth. What I like best about the Democratic Party is that it does nuance. Life does nuance, the world and people are in full technicolor. Democrats revel in nuance and diversity ; we don't shrink away from it. Republicans do black and white, they are reactionary, and serve up platitudes for solutions as they screw this country up.
But I'll be damned... it seems we haven't learned from history and are prepared to throw it all away again because of our discontent and our disappointment and give control back to a bunch of idiot republicans because whether we like it or not they are the only other alternative in our messed up system.
I'm not calling for blind following... and I didn't get that from the OP either. But we as Democrats need to embrace this great challenge and not throw out the baby with the bathwater... or worse, throw out the baby and keep the bathwater. Or in other words, give the reigns of power in this country to a bunch filthy, corrupt, self-serving, careless, racist republicans.
For me, it's absolutely clear that the greater enemy that will bring down this country is the repugnant Republican party. I've not agreed with Obama on everything - strongly disagreed - but that does not take away one iota of the good legislation and executive orders he's put in place in the face of *unprecedented* opposition. Repeat that - *unprecedented* opposition.
The real problems in this country are caused by the repukes, the repugnants, the tea baggers, the vile, filthy GOP... republicans. They have worked hard to earn that reputation, let's let them own it and never let your friends forget it lest they weasel themselves back into power and do worse than what George Bush, Dick Cheney, and all those cast of criminals did to this country? So if you're disappointed in Obama, just look what's waiting in the wings to take over. You'll be pining for your disappointment after the tea baggers get their way.