Are those who defend President Obama's every single move, sincere?

[Savannahmann]

10. My Party is always right.

A smaller version of My Country is always right. While many of us would object to this as childish, the cheerleaders would argue that no matter how bad our party is we must support it or the other guys, who are worse, would win. This is a juvenile argument obviously, as it utterly ignores the process of evolution.

Evolution does not just happen to the biological aspects of the species, it happens to the societies that those species create. One hundred years ago slavery had been abolished, but mistreatment because of supposed genetic superiority continued. People looked down on any groups that did not associate with the one doing the looking. Irish were considered as drunken brawlers. Hence the name of the Paddy Wagon, which was used to haul the drunken Irishmen to jail. Germans were viewed as boorish, while the English and French were considered Genteel. The English Army officers considered the French to be substandard, because while they were officers, they were not gentlemen from good families.

Today, for the most part, our society has evolved into a better one. Yet, we still use the same small minded bigotry applied in other areas. WASP's were superior, everyone knew it. One of the strikes against Kennedy was that he was Catholic, and even today many people think that Catholics can't dissociate their views from that of a foreign Pope.

So we must be loyal Democrats, and support the party, and our elected officials in full throated shouts of determined obedience. The problem is that it utterly ignores that same Evolution that we pretend to recognize in other areas of life. The Democratic Party has evolved on many issues, and many of those evolutions were IMO mistakes. So instead of debating the issue from the point of view that we can evolve into something better, we have become RW lunatics demanding that such evolutions are a sign of weakness.

It isn't weakness, it is the natural progression of species, and of opinions. Species evolve from the simple to the complex, why shouldn't our political views follow the same evolutionary pattern? Well, we're not going to do that if we are Democratic Party members, because that evolution is a sign of weakness. Instead we are chastised for not offering our full throated support of the party, those folks even claim we want the Republicans to win.

My only question is what will it take for us to evolve as a party, and embrace the truths that so many see as self evident? From where I sit, it looks like the Republicans are going to beat us to that state of mind, and if they do, if they embrace populist idealism before we do on the subjects that matter, we're going to be in the minority for a generation or more.