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Shorter Republican Party: we can't publicly accept the results of a democratic election until our most unhinged supporters and their loeader Donald Trump say we can, because we're terrified that we're such unskilled losers we won't get jobs if we lose this $174,000 taxpayer gig.
Shorter Democratic Party (2010): we're gonna pass this healthcare bill and get 30 million people covered even if we lose our jobs over it because we studied in college and if voters punish us we'll be fine, and on the right side of history.
Which party is actually worthwhile?
Which party is actually worthwhile?
The Democratic Party actively annoys me, more often than y'all can possibly imagine. But I've remained a Democrat all these years because even when they screw up, I believe they fundamentally give a shit about regular people and democracy. Republicans? Clearly not so much.
I was among those who believed that Al Gore was robbed of the presidency in 2000. The man won the popular vote and his opponent's brother oversaw voter caging and disenfranchisement in Florida, aided by his hand-picked secretary of state. Yet Al Gore did the right thing.
I'll never forget this speech; I remember it as Vice President Gore's "let the glory out" speech. I wept through it at the time. And it may have been Gore's finest hour in public life.
Sixteen years later, Hillary Rodham Clinton, another Democratic winner of the popular vote, by an even larger margin, also give a concession speech -- to Donald Trump. And as Gore did, she put her country over her own emotions, even knowing what Trump was.
Needless to say, there will be no such patriotic moment from the pathetic villain that is Donald Trump, who cannot set aside his ego and his pride; his neediness and his endless sense of privileged victimhood for one second; and whose party doesn't give a damn about this country.
God help us with that lot still holding enough power to wreck us.
