Yep, me and Rachel Maddow. That message is weak, hollow, and worst of all, dismissive of everything a democratic voice should stand for. We have endless democratic reps running AWAY from the successes we've achieved under Barack Obama, AND our party, and our tenuous hold on the makings of policy, against the voracious desire of the GOP to wipe us and our message out through a sustained and VERY successful campaign of obstruction.
Where the HELL is the back bone of our party? Man, I sure don't see it a couple of weeks before the mid terms.
I cannot begin to explain the disappointment and yes, some amount of detachment, that I feel as I look at the inability of the Democratic party AND that includes all progressives amongst us, to deliver our message.
IMO, despite all our efforts and best wishes here on the Daily Kos, I think most of us will agree, there's something seriously sagging in our spirit here. I am praying that somehow, this will not be a repeat of 2010, but I can't say I feel the mojo in the air.
I don't.
I don't see as much courage in the Democratic party today as I'd like to see. I see it in places and certain people, but frankly, if we lose the senate this year, then IMO, it will because we were either too busy picking apart our own party, or too busy thinking we didn't need to form a cohesive statement to the American people, one that most of them could buy into, OR being afraid to speak it as such.
We all know that polls support our policies on this and that, but haven't you ever wondered why if all these polls are running in our favor, we're in danger of losing to the republicans in the mid terms?!
Yeah, I'm asking that. A centrist friend said to me the other night, "well, if everything you say is true, why is this election so close? Why does it seem that by all accounts, America is going to turn the senate over to the republicans?"
It's a damn good question, and I found myself unable to answer to it. Sure, there is a divide in our country that no amount of Democratic messaging can answer to. Always has been there. I get that.
But, in these times, with so much evidence of where the republican policy agenda has gone wrong, WHY CAN'T WE ANSWER TO THAT WITH STRENGTH AND CONFIDENCE?!!
And when I say that, I don't mean "our way or the highway." ABOVE ALL, I don't mean that. Because our job is to convince and cajole, not to lecture.
It is all very complicated, and I have no easy answer. But I am chagrined to see Democratic reps running away from this president, and running away from the Democratic platform. It just makes me want to give it all up and reserve my place on "Walden Pond" to just say, what the heck, it is what it will be and always is, and I just want a piece of peace.
Sorry to sound so down tonight, and hoping y'all will set me straight, and give me a reason to believe it's better than I think it's going to be.
But then, IF we do lose the senate, I DO have a lot of confidence in the GOP screwing themselves in the lead up to 2016, maybe more so than would be apparent if we keep the senate. But yet, I'd have thought America would have decided they'd screwed up enough by now. But that hasn't happened.
In any case, friends, I'm feeling down tonight, and don't mean it to be contagious. I hope with all my heart that Democrats will surprise us all come the mid term vote. Oh man, I SO hope for it.