From before Tuesday's victories, a reminder of what we are up against.
Five years on, it’s hard to recall Obama’s re-election without thinking
about the millions of Americans who stewed in racial outrage when Obama
delivered his victory speech,
who hurled the worst insults at Michelle and Sasha and Malia when they
saw that beautiful family on their television screens, who regarded the
white voters who rejected Romney in favor of Obama as traitors to their
race–and who unleashed their outrage in the 2014 midterm elections and
the 2016 Presidential election. It shocks the conscience to think about
the sickness in the souls of those who looked at Obama as he delivered
that speech and saw him not as the man who rescued the economy, not as
the man who brought down Osama bin Laden, not as the man who saved lives
through the Affordable Care Act, but as someone who should be a field
slave.
The folks who viewed
Obama that way will never leave Trump’s side. They couldn’t care less
about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s
ties
to Russian President Vladimir Putin. They think Robert Mueller’s a
member of the “Deep State” trying to remove their hero from power. They
agree with every tweet. They will never change–and unless those who
opposed the wingnuttery of Romney in 2012 and Trump in 2016 harness
their power in a consistent, effective manner in 2018 and 2020, those
who hate Obama and love Trump will maintain their outsized influence
over this country’s political power.
Five years ago, Obama’s re-election slogan was
“Forward.” Will this country move forward again? If so, how soon?
Well said. Actually, all your stuff is pretty well said. I'll be checking in every day now that I've bookmarked the site. I'm a fellow LIBERAL (A LOUD one) and blogger https://docsez.net and poor schmoe living in a cherry-red part of a pretty blue state (South Jersey, the "Same to you, Pal" state).
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