And I sympathize, really I do.
You tried SO HARD.
You brought people out of the woodwork that have never, ever voted in their whole lives, shoved them into voting booths, and got yourselves in charge.
Oh, the tickertape, the celebrations, the "now is the time," the joy, as you finally ascended into the heights of power from which, you claim, you should never have been expelled.
You tried SO HARD.
I'm proud of you.
This week, a Congressman openly called our President a liar, publicly. Civility's still in place; you managed to armtwist him into an apology. But his constituents sure didn't mind, and they took less than 48 hours to respond with an outpouring of support equaling the warchest of his opponent for that seat.
This week, one of your very own party loyalists was forced to admit, at one of those "meaningless" town hall meetings, that no Constitutional authority exists for national health care. By a doctor. And tried to cover it by saying that "as a society" we have decided to disregard the Constitution.
This week, the "community organizers" you gleefully put in charge of the census - thus allowing you to gerrymander the next election cycle at will - got caught doing, well, business as usual for them, and the U.S. Census Bureau told them to go piss up a rope.
Your budget is clearly and obviously a failure.
Your healthcare plan is dying, and based on sources that are rapidly being revealed as failures themselves. People are catching on that your real goal here is to allow for the unionization of health care, and they're terrified of that, after watching so many unionized companies wither and blow away.
Your legislation has to be forced down the throats of the public, and they've stopped buying your claims that the Republicans are merely being "obstructionist" - the Republican PR efforts to portray themselves as fighting a desperate, last-stand battle to resist the tide of lunacy are working. They're presenting alternatives, even if you try to ignore them. And the word is getting out.
Your approval ratings, as a party, are going faster and faster down the drain.
You tried so, so hard.
I applaud you for it, even while I scorn your goals, deride your morally bankrupt ideology, and ignore your pitiable attempts to make logical arguments predicated on unsound premises.
Because - something you will do well to learn - hard work is worth something. just because you've put it - lots of it - in the wrong place, and in service of the wrong ideas, doesn't mean you didn't learn a work ethic while you were doing it.
Learning how to work hard for what you want is never wrong.
