Wow, this whole place is full of threads saying things like the American people are dumb, etc.
And this is the very reason why Dems lost badly tonight. Because until us progressives wake up and see that it was us ourselves that lost this badly tonight then we will continue to see nights as bad as this one in the future.
Us progressives compromised our principles because all we wanted to do was defend Obama at every turn, we didn't hold Obama's feet to the fire when he started to abandon the principles he got elected on, instead all we did was find excuse after excuse to defend Obama.
When he failed to get Gitmo closed, we excused it as Repugs blocking him and forgot all about it.
When he entered Iraq again after saying no boots on the ground, we again found an excuse for him and convinced ourselves what he is doing is right.
When he failed to go after any of those 1%ers that caused the crash, we again excused him.
When the rich are making all time high profits and the working class and poor people are struggling to survive, we blamed the Repugs and excused him.
When he failed to deliver the promise of immigration reform, we absolved him of blame.
When fracking increased under his presidency, we again let that slide.
The above list can go on forever, but the point being that Obama disappointed and reneged on so many things, that a lot of progressives simply gave up because they didn't have any reason to vote this time around.
Obama caved and compromised so many times with those ignorant Repugs, that he lost the faith of most progressives, and whats worse is that it was the times that he stood his ground that he gained support and the Repugs lost support.
When he stood his ground over the government shutdown, it was Obama that won and it was actually the Repugs that came out losing support, YET why Obama couldn't fight just as hard for other progressive ideals for the same kind of outcome Iis what I fail to understand.
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