Mark Morford: Letter to a whiny young Democrat

[RamboLiberal]

Oh, now you've done it.

See? You see what happens when you young liberal voters get so disgruntled and disillusioned that you drop all your party's newborn, hard-won ideas about Hope™ and Change™, without any patience, without really giving them sufficient time to mature, without understanding that hugely foreign, anti-American concept known as "the long view"?

See what happens when you wallow in hollow disappointment, trudging all over your liberal arts campus and refusing to vote in a rather important mid-term election, all because your pet issues and nubile ego weren't immediately serviced by a mesmerizing guy named Barack Obama just after he sucked you into his web of fuzzyhappy promises a mere two years ago, back when you were knee-high to a shiny liberal ideology?

Well, now you know. This is what happens: The U.S. House of Representatives, the most insufferable gaggle of political mongrels this side of, well, the rest of Congress, reverts to GOP control like a brain tumor reverts to a more aggressive form of cancer, and everything gets bleaker and sadder and, frankly, a whole lot nastier.

What happens is: Many kinds of fragmented, muddled, but still constructive Democratic progress might get stopped quite nearly dead, and even a few pieces of legislation we actually did gain get slapped around, threatened, stomped on the head like a scientist at a Rand Paul rally. Happy now?



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/03/notes110310.DTL#ixzz14Q2dPNhY

[Clio the Leo]

1. I dont think it was so much folks being too disgruntled to vote...

... but No Obama = No reason to. Part of the reason why he got so much of the youth vote, so many new voters, is that he's unlike any other politician out there. I'd venture to guess that for a LOT us, there's a HUGE difference between Barack Obama and "random generic politician" ... same party or not.

That's just my gut. I'd be interested to see if there was any research on this.

[Vincardog]

2. I love that when Obama won it was because of the moderates and centrist 'independents' and such

That is why he and Rahm could tell us LIBERALS to sit down and let our betters talk like grownups.
When The DLC and NEW Dems lead the party off the cliff it is because they have been pandering to the Left and the Left stayed home.

How many faces do y'all have?