My children were born when GWB became president and only knew of Republican failed leadership for 8 years until President Obama. They helped me campaign for Obama and I told them every time we went canvassing on a beautiful summer day or in the wind and rain that this is important for you for your future. I was thinking long term of their whole lifetimes. Right now the netroots is working against what we walked up and down streets and sidewalks for and its really pissing me off.
The plan is this: Accomplish democratic party agenda items for the next 4 years, the American people will see their lives have improved and will continue voting Democratic for another 8 or 16 years, so we can keep Democrats in office for the LONG TERM. Health care reform, climate change legislation, DADT Repealed, improved economy and jobs growth, closing guantonamo, and alot of other initiatives are being worked on now and will happen in the near future. This is a win for Dems people. Be proud. If Dems do a good job we'll be in office for awhile and we can keep building on those achievements. Achieving democratic party agenda items is going to involve compromise along the way. Everything is not going to be purely, ideologically progressive. It will pay off over time though because if we keep a Dem in office, even if we compromise on some things, the net result will be Democratic accomplishments that we can build upon. If you want a progressive agenda carried out it will have to be over time. The catch 22 is our Democratic candidates may need to compromise in order to get some stuff done. But thats ok because over time we'll make progress, voters will see results and see their life improved and keep voting Democrat. Get it ? Right now some the Netroots are standing in the way of this plan, insisting on a specifics that in the long term will not matter. Netroots do not represent the whole Democratic Party. The Democratic Party, thanks to president Obama, are a much bigger tent than that. The Netroots is only a portion of President Obama's base, so we've got to include all viewpoints. I started campaigning for Obama in Feruary 2007 and the netroots were not behind this president at that time. In fact most were not behind this president until it looked like he was going to win the primary and it was safe. Don't tell me how you campaigned so hard and gave so much. If you did you wouldn't be giving up in less than a year. I didn't stick it out through all of the ups and downs of he campaign just to give up in less than a year. If you continue tearing down this president just understand you are helping the Republicans. You are joining the teabaggers and Glenn Beck, O-Reilly, all of Fox, Boehner, Kyle, Connell, McCain, and they love it. Moron Joe and Mika love it. Keith Olberman, and Howard Dean, Arianna, Ed Schultz, Bill Maher, Jane Hampsher are helping the Republicans. They all make alot of money spouting their opinions on tv. Do not follow them over the cliff. They pride themselves on being smarter than the other party, but right now they're just as scared, just as emotionally reactive.
Here is the real life, reality based truth: You will not see another more liberal president or more democrats in the Senate in your lifetime, I don't care what your age is. What you will get, what you are currently working towards is getting a very conservative Republican president and congress next time around. You are letting this moment pass by and and screwing it up in a big way. The netroots have to be constructive and smart in their criticism and give this president, our president, a chance to get some things done.