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And yeah, she didn't work for it or try to protect it. She didn't see "it" (as in Scott Brown vowing to work for it). And neither did the DNC, evidently. Did anybody - anywhere within Democratic circles, with all the resources, brain-power, ground-gamers, strategizers, tactical specialists, pollsters and poll analysts and wind-testers at their disposal, even try to get to her and shake her awake and tell her to get out there and meet people and work for it - BEFORE the last weekend before the election? I'm afraid the DNC and Dems in general are going to do, yet again, what I've seen manifested in a pattern over many years: underestimate the enemy. Okay, I'll dial it back a little and say - underestimate the opposition.
In some cases the opposition is the opposing party or opposing candidate or opposing view-holder. In some other cases it's, in effect, the general population. They become the opposition when they look to the here-and-now and don't consider a longer view, either toward the future or from back in the past. If the voters of Massachusetts knew Coakley was more in step with their views - and they STILL went ahead and gave their hearts to the fast-talker who sped up on the inside lane and snatched away her lead. When she wasn't looking. george w bush and dick cheney wanted it too. So did sarah palin and john mcsame. And they fought for it. Doesn't mean they deserve the job. It's what they stand for that counts.
My point was - nobody's paying much attention anymore! There's still too much of a tendency among too many Dems (and I'll include Obama in this) to give too much benefit of the doubt, to assume the loftiest of the people they're trying to reach. Sometimes, in the real world, you just can't afford to do that. Sad but true. It's wrong and short-sighted and naive to assume that "the American people will recognize a liar when they see one. The American people will understand. They'll know what's true and what isn't. They'll know what's right. NO. That's the problem right there. They do NOT. Not anymore. Not since the rise of limbaugh and Pox Noise and the rest of the machinery that keeps pumping out unchecked and unchallenged propaganda so there's only one view that ever gets heard. And people start to believe what they hear if it's pushed at them 24/7 with little or nothing to push back against it and counter-act it. Viewers of Pox, among other outlets, are being trained to accept everybody on Pox Noise as truth-tellers, even though they're anything but. Obama and friends are still assuming they're working with ladies and gentlemen, and people who believe in playing by the rules. That's not who's sitting across the table anymore.
Our side tends to take so much for granted:
Assuming the republi-CONS really do want to work in a bipartisan manner.
Assuming the people will remember who ran up the debt in the first place.
Assuming the people will understand who's really on their side.
Assuming that a D is a D is a D when you're recruiting more Dems to run for office, and wind up like Rahm Emmanuel did, with a bunch of pig-headed, short-sighted Blue-Dogs crapping all over the House and Senate.
Assuming people won't be fooled by bumper-sticker politics.
Assuming that if you just tell everyone the truth, that'll be that, game over, and everyone will know it's the truth and no one will dispute it or try to pervert it or misrepresent it.
Assuming that the people do vote in their own best interests.
Assuming that people will believe you who speak out a few times in a month instead of the lying asshole spewing his lies three hours a day, Monday through Friday, with reruns and "best-of's" on weekends.
And assuming that, even when you're in a position to do something about that last one - that there's really no reason to do so.
I could go on with that list but it just gets tiresome. But the problem is - we're losing ground all over the place. Health care reform. A woman's right to choose. I see a wide-ranging, broad-based dropping-of-the-ball, falling asleep at the wheel, taking too much for granted, while the people and forces we're up against have remained vigilant and been at it for at least three decades in a concerted effort to take over. Even while they're loudly playing victim all over the place.
Seems to me there's plenty of blame to go around - to ANYONE who isn't vigilant, to ANYONE who doesn't pay attention, to ANYONE who just chooses to accept something at face value rather than vetting it. To ANYONE who doesn't keep their guard up all the time.
Maybe I'm just in a really pessimistic mood today. Sorry about that. The news lately has just really been getting to me.
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