The dust has cleared and the midterm elections are over, and we liberals got creamed! Its a matter of fact! It doesn't mean that our beliefs are any less right mind you or that our values are substandard. To the contrary our values and beliefs are very much a force for good in the country. Instead of being selfish and only pleasing to a select few of our countrymen, our prefer ed way of helping the country is by developing, passing and implementing legislation the most amount of the population the best way possible.Things like better gun legislation, Women's right, workplace equality, marriage equality, and increasing the minimum wage to a level that the demographic that largely works in those areas are able to sustain themselves in a way that doesn't nearly make them homeless from month to month.
These are all important things to the health of our economy and country But we have a massive problem as liberals. Where we're awesome at coming up with these ideas and working to implement them when they do pass, we fucking suck at running campaigns that will get us elected to the positions that will most allow us to actually accomplish these things. That's why we got our asses handed to us across the country! I watched as one state after another turned from blue to red as republican after republican take seats in their districts, setting up a really bad problem that will either lead to more gridlock in Washington and now in the state senates and congresses, or see some dangerous legislation start passing that would threaten to undermine the incredible progress that we've already made in repairing the damage that was done by President Bush and the republican control ed congress that existed between 2001 and 2009.
So where do we as liberals and democrats go from here? Well right for the moment its far to late to spring back and win the 2014 midterm elections. What we need to do now is regroup. The first thing we need to reflect on why we lost and study our opponent and try to understand why they won. If we dont learn from it we're going to keep making the same mistakes over and over again and keep letting the republicans win. If we keep letting them win its going to throw the country further and further into a downward spiral.
The next thing we need to do after studying what went wrong for us and right for them, is sit down and come up with an actin plan to retake the ground we lost on the state and national levels. We're in for a turbulent storm over the next two years. Mitch McConnel is the most likey person to be chosen for the republican majority leader and he's been quoted on camera as saying that "he looks forward to working with President Obama". I think we all know that what McConnell really means is he and the Republican majority run house will work with President Obama, so long as he's doing what they want him to do, or else gridlock and government shutdowns are likely to continue. We'll see.
We can take the senate back but its going to be a hard fight. But I think if we were to correct our campaigning issues between now and the primary elections in 2016 that we can not only take back the state level senate's and congress' we lost this year, but add to the number of states we turn blue, while at the same time getting the majority of the house back in our national senate and house and set up a really good environment for a real progressive president instead of the one that we got. Dont get me wrong, Obama has done a number of great things, but at the same time he's also allowed though a number of dangerous things things like more tax cuts for the wealthy for instance, though.
Lets make the next two years count so we can repair the damage that's about to be done to the country via bad republican policy.
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