Staying true to Yourself

I am very disappointed in more than a few Democrats this election cycle.  I'll explain more in a sec, but first...

Worthless Republicans, who have been plotting to stymy President Obama since the night he was sworn into office, politicians only concerned with their own power and agenda, willing to really hurt many Americans to make sure their goals are achieved, will likely win enough seats in November to ensure the final two years of his presidency are mired in absolute gridlock.  They said they wanted to create a political mess in Washington DC, just to prevent Obama from getting any accolades, and they have succeeded, making a feast of incompetence, stonewalling and partisan bickering on levels rarely seen in America.

This is the Republican Party's official stance, on Thursday afternoon, on two subsequent news stories:

1) We can't hold Bush accountable for torture, something the Bush administration approved, and bragged about.

2)  Obama is personally bringing ebola to America.

Sweet Jesus.  Not only should no one ever vote for a Republican, but frankly some of them should go to jail for the lies and pain they have caused the vast majority of Americans.

In November of 2014, they will win enough to ensure nothing gets done.  They will either be one or two seats shy of a majority, but still effectively control the entire narrative of the Senate, or they will actually have a majority, and, due to milquetoast Democrats who won't give the right a small taste of the same treatment they have given the left for the last 8 years (one of the reasons I am disappointed), the GOP will spend the next year trying to make sure the Obama Presidency never happened.  They will put the most hate filled, vile, racist, sexist, homophobic bills out there and create a carnival of photo ops (birth certificate, Benghazi, and ebola hearings) to feed the far right rhetoric hate machine more fuel for the puppet masters and zealots who push the buttons and ring the bells, while the idiots who vote for them wait at the bottom of the chute for the anti-Obama kibble to come down to them.

For the second year, 2016, they'll be frantically hitting the erase buttons on their computers and using the white out on their papers to try to remove the racist stink all over their legislative legacy for the first non-white president.  They will try to say "what an honor" and "I was privileged" when they never were.  Their legacy for eternity is sealed, a political party so betrothed to the money which controls their every decision, and the racists who make up a shocking number of their loyal followers, they've become something their relatives will distance themselves from for generations to come.

The only redeeming factor to them having a one seat majority in the Senate is it won't allow anyone to vote against the legislation spoon fed to them by their big money, Machiavellian leaders.  They will be thrown out of office in force in 2016.

The House is a loss.  They gerrymandered it into a safe zone for the Republicans, at least until 2018, when I think even their most strident followers will start to pull the curtain aside.

Here is why I am angry at the Democrats.  2006 taught us if you are proud to be a Democrat you win, even in right leaning districts and states.  Since those impressive wins, the left has slowly been giving the power back to the Republicans by shying away from, no, running away from, being Democrats.  Where are all of the big Senate losses going to come this election cycle?  In states where the Democratic candidates are distancing themselves from the President and the Democratic agenda.  They did so because they bought the lies the right was selling; You can't win being a proud Democrat.  Shame on you for believing their narrative.

When Democrats proudly stand up and wave their banners, they win.  Don't ever be afraid of being a person who thinks everyone should get a fair chance, everyone deserves the same opportunities, and everyone, not just the ultra-wealthy, deserves the same rights; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.