Forget the Democrats. Forget them all. Why the hell should we be trying to "regain our message" when the groups of people we're trying to help CAN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO TAKE FIFTEEN MINUTES TO MAIL IN A BALLOT?!?!?!!!
You know what? Forget this. Forget the Democrats. We tried our best and we still couldn't get the lazy bastard Democrats off their couches to vote. Or even just to stay on their couches and FILL OUT A DAMN MAIL-IN BALLOT!
Screw them. Screw this. Democrats deserve the Congress we're about to get. We didn't have to do much to prevent the oncoming catastrophe. Just vote! That's not so hard! Bubble in the right candidate. Lick. Stamp. Mail. I mean, if you don't want to stand in line or waste gas driving five minutes to a polling station, fine. Even your lazy, apathetic ass can get a ballot in the mail. Don't even have to leave the house! Not hard, right?
But no! Even THAT was too much for the lazy fucking Democrats! Oh nooooo! And now everybody is trying to SYMPATHIZE with the irresponsible bastards. "Oh, we understand! Our message wasn't sexy enough! We didn't campaign enough on populist principles! We didn't have enough pretty, inspiring, fresh faces. This is all OUR fault! Not yours! Ours!"
Bullshit. This is the fault of the non-voting public. It doesn't matter if your candidate isn't Mr./Ms. Perfect. That's not an excuse to not vote and allow the Republicans to win over the not-perfect Democrats. To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: "They're saying, 'I wanted a whole loaf. I only got half a loaf so I'm just going to give up bread and eat a pound of ground glass instead." That's the Republicans. They're the ground glass.
I'm so sorry Democrats, did the Republicans not give enough clues that they're BAD GUYS AND SHOULDN'T RUN OUR COUNTRY?!?! Not when they threatened to default on our country's credit and ruin the world economy TWICE???! Not when they shut down the government frivolously and caused millions of Americans to lose money?!?! Not when they started an irresponsible war that murdered millions of Iraqi civilians, thousands of Americans, bankrupted American, caused the Great Recession, and may have permanently destroyed the post-Cold War peace that President Clinton (the DEMOCRACT!) worked so hard to preserve?!
But no, that doesn't matter. "WAAAH! I don't wanna vote for my Senator! He's not perfect! I don't wanna vote for my representative! She doesn't cater exactly to my needs! WAAAH!" SHUT UP!!!
You know what I did today? I went to work. I don't like work. I don't like spending all day in a nursing home reassuring dementia-ridden old ladies and wiping their poop off the floor.... but I did it anyway because that's what adults do. They go to work. They stay up late to finish paperwork. They pay taxes. They make sure their kids are fed and clothed. They push themselves a little with each career to make sure they are successful.
I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could just get a check for a million dollars so I could retire, move to Alaska, and spend the rest of my days living in a log cabin, hiking, and writing graphic novels. Not gonna happen, and no reasonable adult should expect such a thing to happen overnight. Doesn't mean I'm gonna pout and not go to work just because I didn't get my way.
Same with voting. Yeah, your senator or representative isn't going to wave a magic wand and turn the minimum wage into $12/hr, make healthcare socialized, make guns illegal, strengthen worker protections, make cheap solar power a reality by 2020, outlaw fracking, make "socialism" and "feminism" and "liberalism" into compliments and not epithets, and do all sorts of wonderful things. Not going to happen overnight. SO WHAT?! That is NOT an excuse to not vote! So your Democratic senator is boring. That is NOT an excuse to not vote! She or he may be slow, may be dull, may be not as flashy as you'd wish, but that is NOT an excuse.
The Democrat would not have destroyed America. The Republican will.
Your country comes first. Not your wish for a flashy, exciting candidate. Your country. That is top priority when it comes to voting.
So to hell with the Democrats who didn't vote. Because that's exactly where we're ALL going to go with the Republican Congress.