It's telling that the Obama Bashers speak about the threat us "apologists" pose in terms of it being about "them" and "their movement." They speak about it in terms of the apologists being a threat to "us," meaning them and their ideals as liberals.
This is a head in the sand purity bandaid over a much much deeper inhumanity that is uniquely American in its prevalence on the left. American liberals are not thinking as global citizens, like the rest of the global liberal community. That attitude is especially depraved in this country given how much America impacts the rest of the world with our actions.
The last time liberals chose their ideals over what they castigate as a "fake pragmatism," we lost the election and half a million people were killed in the Middle East. They have no excuse any longer to pretend like they don't know the ramifications of not rallying the American public around our own team.
Five hundred thousand people.
The Obama Bashers shrug it off (see my previous diary for their comments). They say Obama is a bigger war criminal than Bush, because he's involved with 3 wars instead of 2. They say that having Obama in office is worse than having Bush in office because Obama gives Democrats a bad name.
This is an inaccurate, singularly selfish, and uniquely American view of politics and its role in the world. There is no consideration or care about the affect American politics has on the rest of the world.
When Reagan was elected in 1980, the Duvalier regime immediately began murdering liberals, artists, journalists... "socialists." They began doing it simply because they knew they could get away with it with Reagan in office. These are the kinds of things American voters should be prioritizing above their own purity tests, if they want to be considered humanitarians (or even human) by the rest of the world.
With Obama in office, we've seen dictator after dictator being toppled by their own people, simply because those people have very good reason to believe their dictators will no longer be protected by America's leaders as they have been in the past. This is the Change me and the world's liberal community believe in, even if American liberals are out of that loop.
The world expects Americans to have learned the lessons of George Bush and the 2000 election.
Those liberals who refuse to face up to the limitations in American politics, either out of frustration or simple childishness - they are willingly condemning hundreds of thousands if not millions of people on this planet to death, whether it be by way of global warming, war, or the inter-relatedness of the two. This is a fact.
American liberals no longer have an excuse with the rest of the world when it comes to their purity and idealism overruling their common sense and their knowledge about what will happen if/when they contribute to turning the American public off when it comes to our team.
No more excuses.
In America you have two choices at the polls. When you see the Democrat vs Republican logo on the ticket or the computer screen, you should be reading "Less Death" or "More Death" because that's what those words really mean to the world.
The world expects today's American liberals to have learned their lesson after seeing what Bush did. They seem not to have done so.
The world won't forgive us next time, nor should they. America's inhumanity and selfishness (and that includes the Obama Bashers more than anyone, because they should know better) in the polling booth should not be forgiven in 2012 if we subject them to another Republican president in this political climate.
Every time American liberals get frustrated with their own team, they pretend to forget just how much worse it can get. Nobody on the planet should play along with them any longer. They haven't forgot how much worse it can get - they simply don't care. Their idealism matters more to them than their humanity.
So, if you won't stop threatening a personal or organized boycott of Obama in 2012 for the people we'll save by re-electing him; if you won't stop tearing him down during the run-up to an election for their benefit - do it for your own good.
Every time Obama sees the left demand things he is unable to give them and then sees them threaten his 2012 prospects because of it, he is reminded of what the DLC is telling him: that they are too irrational to rely on. If he can't rely on the left as a voting base, he'll run to the right and hope for moderates. That's math. Threatening him with your vote won't work the way you claim to think it will, and deep down the Obama Bashers know it. They just don't care. They've embraced a suicidal defeatism, simply out of frustration for living in a consumer society that secures its standard of living by exploiting the rest of the world, and the political limitations this reality defines.