Direct your anger appropriately
I get a lot of slack for being really hard on the democrats, and really easy on the republicans, and most people assume it’s because I’m a republican. They also assume that republicans are to blame for all of the problems in this country. But for me to be mad at the republicans would be like growing up a Mets fan and being mad at the Atlanta Braves. I might be mad that they keep winning, but being mad at the Braves isn’t going to make the Mets a better team. Calling out all the things I hate about the Braves organization and their players, is not going to make the Mets better. And that’s how I feel about politics and political parties.
If I had to be a fan of one team it would be the democrats. Despite the fact that they seem to get nothing accomplished, I still agree with the ideologies they supposedly uphold. And I disagree with republicans on just about every issue. So if forced, I’d say I’m a democrat fan. But the problem is they suck and I can’t help but call it out and yell at them.
I’m mad at Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and every other person on his administration pushing forward this insane agenda that I vehemently disagree with, but it does nothing to make my party better. And lest we forget, the only reason that we are in this situation to begin with is because of the failures of the Democratic Party. Specifically doing two things this time around to get Donald Trump elected. One, standing in lock step with Israel’s relentless assault on the Palestinian people by repeatedly sending money and arms to support it, and vetoing every UN resolution to stop it. It’s hard to convince people you’re the party of ‘morals and integrity’ after that.
Mistake number two was putting all their money, resources, and support into a candidate that was not up to the task. Not once, but twice. First with Joe Biden, who we all knew was incapable of running again, and probably shouldn’t have run the first time. Second, with Kamala Harris. A candidate who presidential campaign four years earlier failed so miserably that she pulled out before delegate votes were even cast. “Trump bad, we’re good” was only going to work the first time and not after what we all witnessed during the Biden/Harris years.
And so while I’m mad right now at the situation this country finds itself in, the question I keep asking myself is what are the democrats doing? What is there plan to win seats in the senate and the house to maybe take some power back? Do they have a plan? Are they thinking about a plan? Are they grooming someone to be the next democratic presidential nominee? Or are they just going to wing it like they’ve been doing for the last 12 years? What is the plan?
Because if there is no plan, and they throw out another hoard of candidates who are incapable of standing up to the republicans and winning, then you can’t be mad at the republicans. You need to be mad at your team and the stakeholders of that team and ask “what the fuck are you doing?” And even if they do win, you need to ask “what the fuck are you doing?” Because since the democrats showed their willingness to support and defend the destruction of Gaza, the reality is with democrats in charge life will only get better for some of us, and the rest of us will continue to suffer no matter who’s in charge. Improvement is only relative.