I took time off last year from Daily Kos because my mom was dying after nearly two decades of declining health.
Apparently, during that period of time, whilst I was learning to navigate the healthcare system for older, sicker, poorer Americans surviving basically on Social Security and Medicare, the Community here was undergoing some sort of change.
By that, I mean you people seem to have, collectively, lost your fucking minds.
We've been shrieking and raising hell to get a more progressive viewpoint seen as electable by the Democratic leadership for over a decade, and it's working. So you all think NOW would be a particularly good time to throw all that effort away and just stand around calling each other names like a bunch of spoiled 12 year olds with a misplaced sense of entitlement to their stupid ideas and desires for "I want it all, and I want it right now!"?
Why are we here? Seriously? There is STILL a question of what Daily Kos is here for, and why the vast majority of Users, Lurkers and the rest of humanity visit?
Our nation has a two Party political machine running everything. It's been like that for most of our history, even though such a fate was bemoaned by a number of the Founders as a sure recipe for eventual disaster.
At times, there are shifts within one of those two Parties such that it becomes populated by Americans who have gone stark raving mad.
The result is that otherwise mild-mannered members of the Other Party are forced, by circumstance, to become more active in matters political, to ensure the entire Nation isn't driven right off the rails.
This is our reality.
The modern Republican Party has become an organized mob of foolish ideologues bent on a path which is simply unacceptable to anyone who cares about their fellow man. Their fiscal policies, based in whole on the proven-false theory of Trickle-down economics, are seen by rational folk as thinly veiled actions to ensure the wealthy and powerful remain so, no matter the damage to the rest of us.
LET ME REPEAT: We have an enemy to fight, and it's The Republican Party. Full stop.
So, to be clear, there are many ways to engage and defeat our foe. To ensure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
But not if we destroy ourselves and become just another mob of foaming-at-the-mouth radicals without direction.
STOP FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER.
STOP acting like children fighting over whose ball it is.
You want a better nation, a more perfect Union?
Be a team, working together, pulling together.
Raise your voices in a single loud chorus which cannot be ignored by the Media and the Government.
Because as individuals out-shouting each other? You win nothing.
The only path to get at least some of what we are convinced the Nation and The People need?
United, we can stand against anything.
United, we are #StrongerTogether.