If the world is about to be destroyed by aliens, and I disarm the death ray, is it a bad thing if I did not leave you with a mansion to live in?
Democrats have come to a bad place, we are defining success by perfection and that does not or will not ever exist. The truth is, we all have pet projects. Some will be met, some half met and some not at all. Climate change advocates will not live long enough to see all the changes they want. The nobility comes in caring enough to want to leave a viable future and a better world. Warring religious strife will get better as the world comes to grips with the difference between myth and reality, but it may never disappear. Most notably, no one will ever get complete satisfaction.
President Obama took over a fledgling economy, Inauguration Day in January of 2009, a stock market just above six-thousand points, staggering monthly job losses, the pending collapse of the automobile industry and if America’s economy had failed, so goes the world. I feel uncomfortably sacrosanct even writing this piece, but it seems we have grown content because we are no longer on the verge of disaster and some believe we can experiment with the luxury of Bernie’s revolution. Democrats sat at home during the last midterm elections and have left the job killing, environment killing, equality killing, Conservative Party in obstructive control. Like always, progressives look for someone to anoint, in 2007 it was, then Senator Barack Obama and now its Senator Bernie Sanders. My fear is, Bernie will not wave the magic wand that Democrats expected President Obama to wave and he will be left with the same critics asking, why he failed to create the perfection we all yearn.
Bernie Sanders has repeated, ad nauseam, that we were on the verge of the worse economic collapse since the Great Depression. That’s not news, we heard it on every daily cable ‘info-tainment’ program since 2008. The real question is, where were Democrats in the 2010 mid-terms when our turn to play our part in supporting the President came around? Now we have a group of blue dog Democrats and frightened progressives, backed by do-nothing Republicans, afraid to run with full throated support, on the President’s record. As an enthusiastic supporter of President Barack Obama, I have no problem saying or writing he has not been perfect. I do not drive a Bentley nor do I live in a mansion, but thanks to him I still have a roof over my head. When you make up your minds and you either, Climb the Hill’ or Feel the Bern,’ please remember the job is not over in November, it is just the beginning. Vote 2016 and 2018!