and I challenge it, clearly. I do not cheer lead, I assist, as in a Democracy, we are on a team, we are participants, not an audience.
Logically, when you get an official who is willing to listen and respond the thing to do is make use of that excellent official. I'd point out to you that my community has in fact made progress during this administration, and that all of that got done while much criticism flew. Oh, what the DOJ said, then what Choi said, how could they say such things? Then we repealed the thing. Accomplishment for the President, certainly, a great one. Do you think, honestly, that he is concerned with the feather that flew on the way to repeal? I am sure the President counts that as a process that worked. I am sure he is thankful to all who put in work and made sacrifices to make that repeal possible. Including those who protested him on this issue. We got it done.
Can you name an accomplishment of his that came out of a community that does nothing other than praise him? So who helped him accomplish, and how was that done? Did 'cheer leaders' (you word, not mine) make political progress on an issue? The 'critics' sure as hell did.
Had we all sat there agreeing with all he or DOJ did, repeal was less likely. The rhetoric was and is just a way of playing politics. The President is not unable to deal with me soundly disagreeing with that opinion. I see him as the sort of person who has little respect for those who do not speak their own minds and seek their own goals.
So yes, sir, I take huge issue with anyone who claims that Democrats need to support all policy or refuse to criticize bad policy when it comes from Democrats. No one, hear me friend, no one has standing to question me and my place in this Party, no one. I will not stand aside and allow some segment of the Party to declare that one must agree with 'Sanctity of Newt's Marriage' in order to support our ticket of nominees. This means that criticism of that idea and the legal expressions of that idea are not going to stop. This is not a Party that is only for those who are fine to hang around and wait for equality. It is a Party for all of us, and no one gets to declare that their way, style or opinions are defining features of a Democrat. Claiming that one segment is THE supporters is disgusting. Segmenting the President's Party is a bad idea. Attempting to define supporting his election as supporting all he says or does is a huge electoral gaff. In my opinion, most who take up the segmenting idea, 'Supporters and Critics' do so out of personal self indulgence. I see no moral high ground earned from nodding along right or wrong. It is in fact, morally wrong to support policy that is wrong or to try to quash criticism of wrong headed or ignorant policy, such as 'Newt is Sanctified but Rachel's not'. It is NOT required that all who wish to elect a candidate agree with all he says or does.
In closing, friend, my Father taught me how to be a good Democrat. My Mother too, and my other elders, long ago. It is not for any one segment of this Party to claim to hold superior 'support' for the Party than another, that is poison. You get one ballot, I get one. Equal. That's just how it is, although some wish to claim the President as part of their territory.
The world is a huge place, and in my quarters I am seen as a really traditional Democrat while others are less Party oriented, some are Greens....I am the center in this world. Hard to imagine? Well, that's why they say 'big tent' and 'it takes all kinds'.
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