Come, I will reveal to you a mystery: both side’s base voters are convinced that their party is the Stupid one. And here is another mystery: both side’s base voters are right. Case in point: the Colorado Democratic party. “The Democratic Party in the crucial presidential state of Colorado dissolved into bitter infighting Friday over a combination of obscure party rules and allegations that the party’s leader has ignored women and Latinos within the party.” Just in time for the 2016 election cycle! Thanks, guys!
The actual dispute is arcane; but then, it’s just a smokescreen for the real dispute, which is… a rationalization for the actual problem, which is that a sufficiently large portion of the Democratic party of Colorado loathes another sufficiently large portion of the Democratic party of Colorado. Which means that it’s time for the knives to come out. And the Democratic party of Colorado will thus spend several months punching itself in the face, because that’s apparently what you do when you lose elections that you were told that you were going to win.
I mention all of this not to reassure you that we’re better than that, over in the GOP. Obviously, we’re not. But neither are we particularly worse than that, either. Both parties seem bound and determined to not let the other one win the Who’s The Biggest Idiot? contest…
Sadly, our idiots are playing the game at the federal level.
This comfort is… cold. You’ll have to pardon me. Lost my job a few months after buying a new house.
“Both parties seem bound and determined to not let the other one win the Who’s The Biggest Idiot? contest.”
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Heh, lines like this are why I (as a former* Republican) can continue to read and enjoy your blog.
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* I’ve been told too many times that as a pro 2A, anti -abortion conservative, I was ‘screwing up’ the party and should kindly (or not, whatever) gtfo, so I did.
How can you be accused of “ignoring women” when you ran Mark Uterus just last year?
Sen. Uterus won a primary but lost a general election.
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Therefore, the old white dudes did not do enough.
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p.s. I deleted the R rated version of this post