Imagine you are trying to take care of every variety of animal located around your property. Being a compassionate individual who believes that your presences does impact the ecological system around you, recognize it. I mean, that it is obvious no matter how inconvenient the thought of taking responsibility for your presence - right. So being who you are, you decide to take responsibility. Simply offsetting your impact by accepting a bit of sacrifice or give back seems reasonable. You start by observing your surroundings and take note of behaviors, habits and routines to determine where you can restore the disruptions you maybe causing. You plan to make changes to accommodate, assist and support your environmental neighbors while also reducing your own unnecessary negative contributions.
You have made a lot of changes and have been rewarded with measurably meaningful results. Things seem to balance well and all seem to be reasonably comfortable. At some point you notice that your environment is growing and as they do, every animal including you are having to make further adjustments to balance out the larger community. Every animal has different needs and the conditions for obtaining or meeting those needs has become less predictable as animals from outside of the immediate area have an easier time finding resources in your area than there own. They are not bad animals nor are they selfishly depriving others for their own needs, but they are consuming more in this area than they are contributing. Their contributions occur be in their community and some of those contributions are actually provided from your community's resources.
Now, some may think I am referencing a likely effect of illegal immigration or undocumented migrant workers. While that could fit the context, this is about those closer to us. You see, we really do want everyone to enjoy the blessings of our the country we can rightfully and jointly claim. But, despite the differing opinions of how to construct and environment that accommodates as many as possible, we often ignore the ripples we generated as if the returning echo will only be good for us. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Etc all to some degree develop these blinders that only confirm that they are doing it right and it is good and if it is not working, it must be due to those who want to do it different. We have all seen that happen in every area of our lives. A problem arises that affects some many that collectively we focus, analyze and brainstorm a solution. A small part of the group focuses tightly on the factors to nail down the most likely root cause. After all, just basing all of our solutions on wants, needs and emotions often generates large quantities of costly band-aids instead of long term solutions. So it is to the educated, the wise and the clear thinkers who seek the cause.
They nail down the root cause(s) and present a case that many can digest and understand. Then that group carries it down to a larger group where the discussion is translated into a more practical representation of their daily lives. And eventually we get a consensus that the majority understands, agrees with and can confidently support. But, along the way some concluded something from the same data that everyone else had read. They insisted that though they were certainly in the minority of the expert opinion, they saw a set of root cause(s) completely contrary to the consensus. Well you know how this plays out, right. They present their case to the same group and manage to find a minority of them to join their opinion and that group carries it downward until we have (at least) 2 groups trying to solve the same problem(s) for the betterment of all....You end up with the effect of external participants who consume from the (joint) results of both efforts. The problem is that they are only contributing to the success of their own group.
In the end,
You are left standing there looking at all of these groups and individuals wondering if they remember hat you even exist. They are so busy trying to Now, manage the complex balances that you had so carefully establish to limit your impact on them...But not it is them who are collectively affect you with overwhelming complexities and multiple negative impacts. None of them are behaving normally nor are they behaving effectively. In fact, they have been conditioned to expect that much of their experience was a natural course of organic events. Now they just blame each other for taking more than their fair share, not contributing enough, Keeping too much and wasting more than others. They turn against themselves competing for resources that seem increasingly scarce. Once again, you , your needs and your contribution have become invisible as their focus narrows to their own needs.
This is the state of the partisan identification demographics. The more we promise each group that they can have it all, they eventually demand every bit of it. And it does not matter if they need it or not. The fact that it was important enough to fight for is enough to drive hunter gathers to locate, collect and store enough to weather storms, seasons, depressions and catastrophes. And at yet some other point in the progression of finding someone to blame, they remember suddenly how you were the one who set the expectations. You were the one that convinced them that if they just lived their lives while you managed the complexities, all would be well for them. Many are about to blame you for neglecting them, dropping the ball, being a fraud or worse - corrupt!.
For the Democratic Party, is what you are going through right now. The Republicans had their own in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014.... It was mostly republican voters who threaded the needle between rejecting the party and destroying it. You, everyone of you saw it. you commented and discussed how close they were to completely shattering the entire party into irreparable fragments of insignificant pieces of ideological debris.
So what happened? How did they manage reconstitute, align and pull together just enough to capture an astonishing amount of control throughout the nation from the local offices all the way up to the white house, the senate, the house of representatives and most likely the courts?
Uh, Trump....
He say they were hurting, angry and abused. You saw it to. The difference was that you diagnosed it as hate for Obama, Race, Sexuality, Democrats, Social Justice, Freedom of Speech, Civil Rights , You.......Trump saw they as injured spouses who were in the process of leaving a cheating, lying and unfaithful spouse..
The republican establishment say them as irrational and unable to understand the complex balance of politics required to produce bipartisan deals (especially when you don't want them to appear bipartisan). How do your get things done with constituents who (rightfully) think that their best interest are merely a convenient coincidence that occurs on the rare occasion when it aligns with the agenda of the politicians. Sound familiar?
You guys are ripping the place up as if your individual members are the problem, as if republicans or 3rd parties are the reason the a party with the popular vote has lost so much. Lets be brutally honest. It's time to
pull your members (not the party elites) together and reform your party. You guy are being misdirected for the sake of the party establishment. Had Trump not come along when he did, the Republicans would have succumb to the very same tactic being used on your, Right Now.
Hillary lost.
We can not deny the enormous amount of facts were true even though peppered with falsehoods,
We can not ignore the facts that the DNC conducted itself in a way that disappointed and disgusted many democratic voters.
We can not deny that states that traditionally support democratic candidates this time have risked so much to improve their circumstances by voting for Trump, which requires a lot of lost trust or confidence for the Democratic Party.
So, that tactic being used on democratic voters I mentioned....
The one that Trump, seemed to yank republican voters from it's snare...
Right now you are being triggered by the the Party Elites to "look over there".
You are looking at Protests, Republicans, 3rd parties, recounts, faithless electors, Russian hacking, disloyal members, meddling FBI directors, look over there , and there, and there,etc. Look at these hurting souls who are telling their story on youtube, twitter and facebook. Tune into to these equally outraged commentators who share your pain.... Look anywhere, everywhere and say whatever you feel. Just do not pay attention to your party's elites as the reorganize, regroup and reestablish themselves while you focus on blaming anyone but them.... They are banking on you draining all of that energy on "not them". In time you will remember the event, the anger and the enemy. Otherwise, what ever disappointment you had from them, well you'll just get over it and return home. After all, it's not like your enemy will offer you what "We Do".
You guys are smarter than that, you are stronger than that and you have the power to take back you party and re-establish and restore it to what you were promised it would be. Or you can hope that by pure chance an synchronicity that your own political Trump will show up "again" to draw you back into the party in hope of reform. I say again, because you already had Obama and I will admit to suspecting that the Elites of the party did more harm to him than Republicans ever could. I think he had a Once in A lifetime opportunity that got hijacked by elites who wanted raise their credibility on his image, work and political capital. As harsh as it will sound, they treated him like a slave whom they worked hard, capitalized on and used for their own political gain. Obama is a smart man. I'm sure he was not unaware. But instead turning it back onto them, he took the smart path and just kept working to stay his course. A course that should have lead to a legacy as historical as his election. A legacy that appears now destined to be unraveled. Which could have been avoided, had only the democratic party elites had not practiced a calculated political rationing to delay of finality Obama's most meaningful initiative. No they hoped to wait until after the 2016 election and 2017 inauguration of Hillary were they could claim credit for finalizing the whole thing and toss Obama a grand legacy for a work begun though left undone until they completed it....
This is something you already knew. It was right there to watch unfold. But when you are constantly experiencing frequent sound of shattering dishes, it's hard not to conclude that the number of fingers point at the bus boy might be onto something. Despite the debris of broken plates around the feet of the person who extended the first pointed finger....
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) not by any Republicans. My memory isn't the greatest, but Mr. Baca was interviewed on the Brad Blog radio show yesterday or the day before if you want to listen. It didn't sound like Baca was trying to screw over Clinton. He was doing this under the assumption that there was no way the Republicans were going to vote for Clinton, that she was a lost cause. So he was trying to get some sane Republicans (oxymoron, lol) to defect and vote for someone other than Trump by offering to do the same, the idea being that Trump is a danger to our country and anyone would be better than him, even a different Republican. 
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