Disappointments have been pretty steady with President Obama and the Democratic Congress. Lots of compromise, lots of folding, lots of giving away the farm to a Republican Minority for votes that they don't give us anyway.
Yeah, it's frustrating, and yeah, this latest cave is poorly thought out at best, recklessly incompetent at worst.
So it's natural to vent, to complain, to criticize. It's natural and understandable to feel betrayed, to feel let down.
But I gotta be honest, this whole "We should primary Obama" stuff that's been cropping up is just forehead=slappingly stupid.
What is the gain? Forcing Obama and his opponent to display a fractured party? To force them to spend time and resources and energy trying to beat each other before taking on the Republican opponent? To spend several months publically tearing down Obama, and then if he wins, trying to build him back up again?
Why would anyone support something so fucking stupid? We'd spend months and millions attacking Obama as being not good enough of a President for his own damn party, and then have to hope that whoever primaries him is strong enough to beat the Republican. Or, we'd spend months and millions attacking Obama only to have him win the primary, now considerably weaker after all the criticisms and attacks.
Is anyone here really so naive to think that if, by miracle of miracles, you find the Presidential nominee who is absolutely perfect for you, perfect in every way, and he manages to defeat Obama, and then goes on to defeat the Republican nominee, then all our problems are solved?
He'll walk right in and clean everything up? Fix the budget? Eliminate the deficit? Public option? Out of Iraq and Afghanistan? Flowers, puppies and hugs for everyone?
Get real.
The Republicans are not out to run the country to fix it, they're out to control it. They want power and don't give one hot shit about who they fuck over to get it. They will happily hold unemployment hostage to get their way, and then brazenly lie about it in order to hurt the Democratic party. That's all they care about.
So we have to contend with an opposition party that has nothing but a black void where its soul should be, but somehow that's not enough? Now some of you want to fracture the party even more in some idiotic quest for a more ideologically pure candidate who will have to contend with the same bullshit Obama's dealing with?
Primarying Obama won't fix all the things we don't like, nor will it guarantee overnight solutions to decades' worth of problems. Instead of lamenting Obama's lack of fight and his weak approach to "compromise," we should start the arduous task of rebuilding the party from the ground up. It will take longer, of course, but removing Obama won't do anything except give us someone new to be disgusted with.
It's fine to be upset with this latest compromise (as I am). Don't let being frustrated and upset lead you into doing something stupid, like believing that primarying Obama is anything other than a dumb idea.