Open Letter to Democrats From a Disillusioned Young Voter

[tooeyeten]

41. True

Being realistic about the ability of your candidate and party you believe reflects your beliefs better than the other, is wisdom and maturity. This party and POTUS have not been sitting on their hands the last 2 years, they've been up against the tea-party and obstructionist GOP like we've not seen in modern times. That doesn't mean there werent some opportunities to do a few things, and its not like things were not achieved. but lets talk about the low voter turn out which worked against the Democrats; their voters didn't show up and they failed not the candidates, voters who didn't vote are to blame. These remarks sound like whining, or worse a tantrum justifying why people didn't vote. The Republicans didn't win crossover voters by any stretch. Unless voters who consider themselves liberal, Democrats, progressives, either voted or if they didn't, that's how our candidates win or lose. In this mid-term voters just didn't bother to show up, that's where the problem is, bottom line. No party, no candidate is perfect, but I'll take a Democrat any day over a Republican today. But some of these foolish Dems did themselves a big disservice by ignoring Obama and those chickens came home to roost 11/4. There's no whining in politics, when you whine about your own party its very unseemly, particularly if you didn't bother to vote, no one will listen to you. Likewise, neither can these losers whine, they miscalculated distancing themselves from Obama, are not distanced from their offices and they are stuck with the consequences too!