Human beings appear reluctant to admit their shortcomings; but this is more evident to the left of the political spectrum. They never fail, they never make mistakes. When it is not the right wing conspiracy; it's a misunderstanding, a glitch in communications or even the weather; bottom line: it's always anybody's fault but theirs. The more the Democratic Party tilts to the left the fiercer their attempt to find blame anywhere but within their own ranks.
Last November 8th marks the noisiest slap we the people have dealt to a political group in recent history. Despite a few seats gained in the Senate the left remained as a minority in both legislative bodies as well as in the governorships in the nation. We didn't reward the GOP; we simply punished the irrational left wing rhetoric, the distancing from the core American values and the elitist arrogance of the Democrats.
Two days before the election president Obama, apparently comfortable with the manipulated polls, threw a bravado in which he shouted to his audience that a defeat on Tuesday would have meant a rejection of his legacy. It must be one of those statements you hate to have ever made; I'm sure he wishes life could be rewound like a video. The reasons for their defeat are crystal clear:
1- Their candidate was the most flawed they've had in years.
2- The message of fear mongering; the agitation of the so called minorities, the apocalyptic predictions of Trump presidency and the outright trashing of everything Anglo Saxon ended up alienating huge sectors of the electorate and placed Joe and Jane Doe in the dilemma of continuing to live ashamed of being white or fighting back. Evidently they chose the latter.
3- A wave of psychological repression came upon us; for the first time I felt pushed to a corner: voting for Trump was a sin, progressive (whatever that may mean) became the word of the day. California, New York and other coastal crowds looked down on the rest of America, the Democrats abandoned their interest for the average citizen and went into an elitist "trance". Name calling became normal; those who supported Trump were "deplorable".
Boy did it prove to be the wrong approach !!! With their proverbial lack of sense of limit; the extreme left that has hijacked the Democratic Party trespassed all boundaries, even that of decency and suddenly it all turned into a war against Donald J. Trump; thus, the monster turned into the victim, the underdog that had to fight his enemies, showbiz, a huge segment of the public opinion and his own so-called friends. All of us forgot how America loves the underdog and the underdog indeed the Brooklyn mogul was. The rest is already history even though the Green Party candidate with much more love for Fidel Castro than votes is pushing for a recount.
For Obama the blame is first and foremost on Fox News; then on the failure of his party to convey the right message and address the right crowd. Never his fault, never his failed promises, never his weak stand in the international arena, never his blurred red lines. With the exception of the presidential election in 2012 the democrats have lost all the important elections since 2010 and still somehow Nancy Pelosi remains as the minority leader in Congress. A younger gentleman challenged her, but the party apparatus seemed to have missed the important lesson of the last presidential election. As a newly affiliated Republican I'm happy that the other party is in bad shape, but as a conscientious American I understand the need of a robust political system and the importance of alternation. We should all be worried and should press for change.
