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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Democratic Party's "vision for the future"?? [View all]RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)WAY TOO MANY "progressives" stayed home in 2010 ALLOWING the RePukes to take over the House and many State Houses, thus allowing them to gerrymander the districts, and now we are STUCK with them in the House. Those "progressives" stayed home and bitched over lack of purity though we had the MOST PROGRESS in government from 08 to 10 in decades. So, now they continue to whine and bitch and attack Obama and some Dems because they MUST find ways to try to work with the REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED HOUSE OF REPS that became Republican-controlled due to "progressives" staying home and bitching in 2010.
Much on your list would be great and much has been proposed but WILL NOT GET VOTES FROM THE RePUKES. So you are running around in circles chasing your tail.
Put the blame right where it belongs: on the "progressives" who bitched and whined and pissed and moaned in 2010, stayed home to "protest" lack of absolute purity, allowed the RePukes to win the House and many State Houses, and are now continuing to bitch.
Moral of the story: QUIT THE BITCHING OVER PERFECT PURITY AND GET THE HELL OUT AND VOTE. Don't like being FORCED to negotiate with RePukes? Then stop bitching and stop staying home in mid term elections and stop ALLOWING them to win. TeaLEFTISM is as bad as right wing TeaISM. The only difference is that right winger TeaNUTS crawl through hurricanes to VOTE. TeaLEFTISTS stay home and bitch delusionally thinking they are "protesting" but all they are really doing is allowing the TeaRightWingers to WIN which just makes them bitch even louder. Round and round and round they go.