The Republicans as a team are winners. The Democratics as a team are losers. They have mastered how to turn the worst situation into a winner, and we have mastered how to turn the best situation into a loser.
Why is this?
They have managed to take fewer ideas and less talent and win because they are a team, while we are stuck playing as a group of individuals.
And that in short is the difference between winning and losing.
It's simple really.
Over the course of their time in office, a congressman or woman will sometimes disagree with their party, but over the long haul will agree with most of what their party offers.
On major policy that will be a close decision, if they blindly play as a team, they will get the majority of what they want in the long run. Sure, sometimes they may vote for a bill they don't want, or against a bill they do want, but that works out - because when it's their turn on something they do want and another member of their team doesn't want it, they can count on their vote - because they play as a team.
We don't do that. We look at every situation as though it's independet from everything else. We're willing to kill something because it doesn't have "oooba goooba" or whatever, then move on to the next issue that we want to pass while our teammate wants to kill it because it doesn't contain that bill's version of "oooba goooba". Then move on to the next issue doing the same, always coming up just short.
While we are circle-jerking about how they're hypocrites and saying something outrageous , they are running circles around us.
And that is the art of losing and why we lose. Until we learn that loyalty to our team matters, not just in the present, but for the future, and to not kill bill after bill because it doesn't have the "oooba goooba" our heart desired, we'll continue to master of the art of losing while crying foul into a vacuum chamber.