Democrats have a bad history of sitting back in non-presidential campaign years and not turning out to vote in sufficient numbers. Or not working to get others out to vote. Back when we held comfortable margins in the House and Senate that didn't matter too much.
But now it does. Big time!
Unless we win back the House this November, Obama will continue to run a three-legged race legislatively with a tree for his partner. He ain't going nowhere. There will be no new legislation about anything.
Even worse, unless we hang on to the Senate, we can lose everything we already have, provided the GOP can muster a large enough majority to override Obama's veto of their attempts to take our country apart. Kiss goodbye to Obamacare, aid to the poor and students, environmental and consumer protection, voting rights, women's rights. You name it; we lose it. And so we get rolled over into Ayn Rand Land where might makes right and the Right make a lot of money.
Come off it, you say. The GOP will never get a veto-busting majority. Oh, honey, don't you wish. If the GOP holds the House and takes the Senate while the economy is hitting on all cylinders, as it now is, and Obama is low in the polls, you will see Democrats - yes, I said DEMOCRATS - in the Senate and in the House mooching over to vote with the GOP and against Obama. The name of the game will be "Every man for himself!" Or woman for herself. It won't be pretty.
And what about state and local races? Are we going to hand those over to the GOP too? Like 2010? We stayed home in 2010 and ignored politics and our kids' and grandkids' future and let the GOP scoop up lots of state legislatures and governorships just in time for redistricting. Oh, yes. They scooped like crazy, and thus they controlled a redistricting so severely lopsided that they won a majority of House seats even though the Democrats outvoted the GOP by ONE MILLION VOTES nationally in the Congressional House races. The GOP won 49% of the popular vote but won 54% of the House seats.
Thanks, all you Democrats who sat home and neither voted nor tried to get others out to vote. You shafted the rest of us royally. Those same GOP state legislatures and governors you greased into office have gone beyond redistricting and in 36 states have blocked our people from getting federally paid health care.
Let me put this plainly. Your laziness has killed people.
And caused others to lose the right to vote through obscenely restrictive voting laws. And started resegregation of schools. And taken control of women's health access. And how about those cuts to school budgets? You've created monsters in many states. Was your slacking off really worth all this pain and misery.
Don't kid yourself. Your neglect of local races has also been very bad. Who controls your zoning? Your kids' schools? Your justice system? Your local health department? Your road building? Your hospitals? Your transit? You did, back when you voted on these offices. Now the GOP is running all this into the ground in many places where folks tuned out "just this once".
Get back in the game and save yourselves, your kids, and the rest of us. No one else is going to do your job in making things work. If you don't save our government from the crazies we are all going to suffer horribly from global warming these next decades as we slide into hell. I won't be here to perish with you but you know what? You will be getting exactly what you deserve. Too bad your little grandkids will have to pay the price too.
This year indeed matters. It's a question of life or death.
Your life and your grandkids' deaths.
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