Surprised by the atmosphere here....

[Hydra]

72. I'm not surprised

In fact, I'm surprised it took this long.

DU has had a rift open between the people fighting for policies and the people fighting for the people in office. This rift opened up almost as soon as the primaries were over- Each person here has a line they won't cross, and when our party asks us to cross it for the greater good, there are going to be problems.

The lines came early for me. I don't support deepwater drilling. The Admin and its supporters told protestors like me to STFU, that we needed the oil and that the adults were finally in charge and overseeing it properly.

When the inevitable happened, the President went on national TV with a plan to fix everything: "Pray."

This was not the first insult. Not by a longshot. "Legalizing" spying. Letting Bushco go. Spitting in the face of the LBGT community. Bailing out the banks while pushing an insufficient stimulus for everyone else. Selling out unions. There is almost an endless parade of the betrayals and other "sensible" ideas being pushed.

At some point, they're going to alienate everyone. In the mean time, you're going to have a split...until at some point most everyone will be on the same side again, because as we drift rightward even further, people here will realize that they are not republicans and don't want to be.

I think that's the essence of the problem here- our leaders want us to be the new moderate Republicans. I'm not one of those. I'm a civil liberties, social and economic justice Democrat. And I'm not budging.