Hey Democrats! You lost my vote.

There’s a line in one of my favorite movies, The American President, that seems appropriate right now. The President is dating a lobbyist who has been working on an environmental bill. He has been trying to pass crime prevention legislation, and when it was clear that that legislation would pass only if he shelved the environmental bill, he folded. She did not take it well. 

He said, “I don’t want to lose you over this.” 

Her reply was, “Mr. President.you got bigger problems than losing me. You just lost my vote.”

Well, Democrats, you just lost my vote.

After nearly 50 years as a registered Democrat, I am now an independent. The capitulation by too many Democrats on the Charlie Kirk resolution was the last of many, many straws. 

Look, I get it. You’re afraid that if you voted against that resolution, then it would look like you’re voting in favor of political violence. You felt you had to swallow all the words praising Charlie Kirk in order not to rile up the other side any further. You don’t want to anger the other side in the hopes of a bipartisan future.

Bullshit. Fucking bullshit. Why not offer your own resolution condemning political violence? Vote against the Charlie Kirk praise-athon and offer a clean resolution against political violence. Introduce bill after bill after bill that tries to undo the damage that has been done to this country by the far right, even if they have no chance  of passing. Be the party of hope we used to be and not the party of fear.

Because until you do, I’m done. I will no longer give you my vote just because you may be better than the other side. You’ve shown there is very little difference between the two at this point in time. From now on, you need to earn my vote.

There’s another line in The American President that fits the situation. At the end, he gives his big speech, and says, “I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to do my job.”

Start doing your fucking job.

Feckless twats. 

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