Ok, who is doing this? Many of your posts imply that none of us will vote democrat come the presidential election because we are complaining now. Why? All of us here will vote democrat in the presidential. Why are all of your posts predicated on the belief that we will never vote democrat because we are angry?
I have a laser focus on upcoming election and I think for good reason.
My post is trying to explain why some members post the way they do in here. And i think people see some defenders as blind loyalists and dont consider the frustration some of us feel that the standards for dems are so much higher than that of republicans. Some would take that as a call to ignore all shittyness from our party and silence all all non supporters of the establishment. That simply isn't true, at least not from me. But the situation is embodied in this very thread. Trump does abhorrent action #213 and everyone shrugs and says "well that's trump' then we all argue among ourselves about how Dems suck and what-not.
So, who cares? If we want to make our leaders better we have to hold them to the fire right? Yes we do. So there is no harm in criticizing our leaders and wanting better representation of our values right? I'm not so sure. This is indeed the goal but having values is meaningless without power. It's a balancing act that the right does not have to deal with because they have rigged the system in their favor and only care about one thing. The lack of standards for republicans and their leaders and our indifference toward that have made the standards for our own leaders a weakness. And its a weakness that Trump wants to exploit as much as possible with his attacks on Omar.
It's just an explanation of a perspective. I'm not saying that because people are angry they wont vote for dems. I'm saying that this kind of uproar does more than just get us riled up on a forum. People like me, that want out of this nightmare, want to push every advantage and leave nothing to chance. So, everything, even descent among dems is seen as a setback.