For all you Democrats who didn't vote, I hope you are terribly, terribly chastened.
President Obama will go down in history as one of the most successful presidents of all time. He has battled the good battle and has accomplished things no one else had gotten done in the last 50 years. And that while keeping some very bad things from getting worse despite the Congressional Crazy Contingent, and by crazy I mean insane, in the Republican and in his own Party. And that despite pioneering as our first black President while fielding the racism of the craziest factions in America. No he isn't perfect; would you settle for 90% perfect, 85%, 80%, in a system built on compromise!? If not, just watch what happens now.
For a long time I wondered why the Republicans didn't just admit they had tanked our economy in 2008. Any honest man, men, would have admitted their mistakes, apologized, and tried to help fix the mess they made. Greenspan did that and was bulldozed by Republicans. I came to realize that the Republicans' insane striving to excel at ungentlemanliness and dishonesty is because if they had admitted to the ruination of America, they would have had to admit that trickle-down was in reality trickle-up, and had been for all these years. Think about it.
Nearly every time George W. Bush had a big decision to make, he went with the absolutely worst decision he could make for a Country where workers work and buy things from businesses. Now we know the reason behind all that was because the Republican Party is determined to take every scrap of money and power needed to help us unwashed rabble and give it to the 1%. Bush put imbeciles on the Supreme Court and in judgeships all over the Country. He squandered a fortune and blew up the worst deficit since WWII partially by giving tax breaks to the rich! He turned an understandable policy of giving a few breaks to a few innovative business people, into a mass hysteria. And if his followers had acted like the honest gentlemen they want us to believe they are, all of that, along with trickle-up, would have become clear to voters much earlier.
Despite all that, people were actually starting to figure it out. No sane human could Pangloss over their incessant lying forever. The Republicans knew that if people caught on, the Republican Party would have been anathema for years into the future. Intelligent people began to bleed away from the Repo Party. So the Republicans, in order to regain lost support, began to court and manipulate people who had never voted in their lives, people who didn't even understand our Constitution and Bill of Rights, people whose world view was about as large as the distance from their house to McDonalds.
This year, finally, part of the Republican Party realized just how deranged some of their new Congressmen really are. That was too little too late which shows just how swift these remaining Republicans can be. These are the folks who brought us Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz….but I digress. Now the Republican Party is made up of only about ⅓ of semi-intelligent members and the other ⅔ are the certifiably pin headed, meanest, most racist and misogynist, illiterate creatures to ever crawl out into the sunlight.
And you…you wouldn't vote for President Obama, one of the most intelligent presidents we have ever had, who has managed to restrain the tantrums of this new wave of ignorant hoards while braving years of their barely disguised hated. What a man. And you threw him away.
What I have learned from this is that the Democratic Party has it's own contingency of barely literate, racist, gullible, people who decided, brilliantly, NOT to place their arrogant asses into a voting booth. And the only thing I can possibly feel good about where you are concerned is that you will share in the grief you have helped to bring down on all our heads. I'm trying, hard, to laugh about that.
The only kind of redemption I can see for you is that you should now start working your sorry asses off trying to help Obama block some of the more extremely disturbed proposed legislation you will be seeing from becoming part of the American rule of law. While President Obama also faces everyday a house stacked against him and everything he could have gotten done in a more lucid and stable atmosphere. Stacked by some of the most ridiculous human beings that have ever slithered.