Does anyone here really think people bashing the president will vote for the GOP in 2014, 2016?

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94. I Don't Mind Criticism

I despise the hyperbolic ad hominems launched at the president. If you want to know why we don't have a bigger success rate on progressive agenda items. You have to look no further than the gerrymandering that took place as a result of 2010. What caused that debacle? Too many progressives sat on their hands, criticized the president, sat back and let screaming bigots run roughshod over the electorate. Does it do any good to stand and yell at the president for not doing enough when obstructionists are stopping any frigging idea that a democrat would come up with, and a Supreme Court that is loaded with extremists on the right. Tell me how we win. Don't complain that the president isn't accomplishing every progressive goal we have. Yes, the NSA needs to be stopped. The drones need to stop being used without preventing collateral damage. Deportations need to stop, private prisons need to be shut down, GITMO needs to be closed down. Yeah, yeah all those things and single payer, too. Until we get rid of rethuglicans who are determined to destroy the country, we need to wage political war on the enemy, not slander the president. Anybody here that wants to launch public attacks on the president should be compelled to explain exactly how those attacks are going to help us win at the polls. If not, then I submit those critics are as much a part of the problem as any rethuglican.