This is my first ever diary, after a couple years on this site. I'm moved to the courage to write this diary because I am scared by what's happening here. I am scared that our own unforgiving ideology will do ourselves the harm we dream the right wing will do to itself.
Now, let me say straight out, I'm not here to argue with those of you who are so angry with Obama you could spit nails. And I'm not here to defend Obama to all of those who still revere him. I have ALWAYS accepted this is a binary proposition. And accordingly, as for me, I'm divided between the two demos I just described. I think I'm not alone in this. And, I think those of us like me, need a voice here.
More under the fold.
I think all of we who take these things seriously, all of we who keep up despite the depressing nature of the news, are the ones this country depends on. And I don't mean that in a congratulatory way. I mean it simply in that those of us who are here, well, that is our destiny. And no matter how much we may disagree with each other, that is our shared foundation. We're here. We care. We keep up, despite the pain.
So. Really, I can't tell you how much I don't want this to be a sux/rox diary, but I have no illusions I'll be able to avoid this more than any other diarist.
Still, what I'm here to ask, is implicit in my head line. WHAT IS THE PROGRESSIVE PLAN UNDER PRESIDENT ROMNEY, or whoever? I must say, I have not heard this question asked here. NOT ONCE.
As far as I can see, there's NO PLAN beyond punishing Obama. And where this site might have once rejected so much as a third party suggestion, we now find ourselves with those here who BOLDLY call to dump Obama, who boldly proclaim that another republican adminstration will help more than hurt. YES, this is no longer rare here AND, the administration of this site seems to have no problem with that, so I'm going to go with that.
So. I ask HOW those of you who are either going to not vote, vote for a third party, or write in...
---expect to have a voice in a republican administration.
---expect that somehow, things will be better, once you've gotten rid of Obama.
---expect to do better under a republican house, senate and presidency.
---expect that you will be MORE motivated to get off the blogs and act than you are now.
---expect that you will somehow, NOT suffer what Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio are suffering for their decision that a lousy democrat wasnt' worth voting for.
I know, how dare I ask these prickly questions? But GOD DAMN IT, I'd like just one of
you who advocate so proudly for your own personal agenda to answer me with YOUR plan as to how it's going to be better if you desert this democrat president, how it's going to be better to endure another 4 years, maybe 8 years, of a republican administration, and not just any republican administration. Oh No. You must answer my question with TODAY'S GOP in mind, or you are a coward.
And, I would also like those of you who are committed to your anger with Obama, and your PROUD PROCLAMATIONS THAT YOU WILL NOT VOTE FOR THIS DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT, to admit your new status as an independent. Because, news flash, when you excuse yourself from voting for a Democrat president, you ARE AN INDEPENDENT. Nothing wrong with independents, but have the balls to admit you no longer are a democrat.
A long time ago, during the Viet Nam War, I asked my dear, sweet and gentle, but alas, republican father, why he was willing to vote for Nixon, who he admitted he did not particularly revere. He said "Honey, presidents come and go. I vote for the party most likely to keep on doing what I believe in" Hated his response at that time. Have since come to understand it, albeit from the other side of the aisle. My father committed himself to a point of view, and lived through his disappointments. There are MANY on his side willing to do the same, and hey, they vote, even in the mid terms.
I understand those of you who are disappointed in democrats and Obama. We have more in common than we don't. I understand that many of you would say the democrats NO LONGER do what you believe in. I get that too, and wonder about the same.
THIS DIARY IS TO ASK, what is the alternative? WHAT IS YOUR PLAN? BE SPECIFIC.
Please, DO NOT sux/rox on me. Please, tell me, how your anti Obama rage is going to help us in 2012? If you can't do that, meh. You're just another whiner without a vision.