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In reply to the discussion: Is left wing outrage as unhinged as right wing outrage? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)You're falsly beating up liberals/progressives for not voting, and thus scapegoating them for something much larger.
People in "the middle" or those "swing voters" need to be given a reason to vote, and to vote Democratic. Many of those people are just fed up with both the Crazy CONservatism on the riht and the "more of the same" mush from the Democratic Party.
President Obama is a genius when it comes to explaining the stakes in clear terms. Like President Clinton, he is brilliant at fiing up people with a progressive populist message when he chooses to.
Unfortunately, both of them, and too many other Democrats are inconsistent. They backtrack and kiss the ass of Wall St. and Big Corporations, and in both policies and words undermine what they profess to believe in their better moments.
And that is symptomatic of too many other Democrats.
And politics becomes small and petty, which gives so many people without a strng ideological center a feeling of "Why bother? They'll all the same and there's nothing I can do about it" when it comes to taking the time to get involved.
To his credit -- President Obama's hair seems to be heating up, at lest in his rhetoric. More of that from all Democratic politicians and "strategists" would be helpful IMO.