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(15,535 posts)We laugh and giggle and take great joy in how the Republican Party is so divided between Tea Party members and Conservatives and high five one another when that divide causes them to lose elections. Then we finally get a Democratic President after 8 long years of total disaster and ruin of our country, and what do we do? Start bashing the President and how he hasn't given everyone a pony and a job as if he is the supreme ruler with no Congress or Supreme Court which makes up 2/3 of the branches of government. So here on DU, let's pit the supposedly "liberal Democrats" against the supposedly "Republican lite" Democrats and give our opposition (the Republican party) ammunition to win more elections.
When you get to be my age, you do garner some wisdom from all the hard knocks you've gotten in life and all the experiences you have had. One of the things I've learned in life from my hard knocks and just from living is that idealism is great but not realistic. We can strive to make our country better, but we will never live in what we think of as an idealistic/utopian society. Most people do not fall within one category or another re: liberal vs. conservative. They fall somewhere in between. But I came of age in the '60's when we set out to change the world and we did in some ways, and didn't in others, and that, my friends is something called "reality".
My parents always told us that life isn't fair. It also isn't perfect and neither is any one person. I think Will Pitt is probably a very decent person whom I've never met, but who has the best interest of our country in mind. However, I have noticed that Will likes to garner attention by using a lot of four-letter words in his opinion pieces and believe me when I say I'm no prude, but it is offputting to me when he starts his threads with "f***" this or that or calls our President who was duly elected by the vast majority of people in this country with the term he used. It is unworthy of a journalist and he would be well-served to tone that sort of rhetoric down. I have no trouble with people who post replies on DU with the occasional swear word, but trying to draw people in to read your stuff by using it? Not so professional and really not so helpful to the Democratic Party and winning elections. You can criticize the President's policies in a mature, dignified manner without resorting to a level usually used by Freepers.