No, you’re the one being intellectually dishonest by pretending any progressive policies had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting passed in an actual constitutional republic with actual separation of powers, actual checks and balances, and an actual opposition party vehemently opposed to anything and everything — even so-called “centrist” incremental changes — for which Obama or Democrats could claim credit.
Here in the reality-based community, we note things like the 62 times the goddamn Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare, as moderate and incremental a reform as it was (though in fairness it extended actual health coverage to 20 million Americans, yielding the lowest percentage of uninsured in history). Some of us are old enough to remember the last time anyone made any serious effort at healthcare reform whatsoever was 15 years earlier, circa 1993. Her name was — hey, GTFO!
Hillary Clinton!
In the reality-based community, we observe this current Supreme Court nomination that the Republicans are blocking until their hopeful President Trump appoints someone more conservative than the impeccably qualified moderate Obama nominated. No sane person can argue that if Obama nominated a more liberal justice, the GOP would have approved it. That’s preposterous.
In the reality-based community, we note that the heinous Citizens United SCOTUS decision (“corporate political dollars are constitutionally protected free speech”) — an actual roadblock (that pesky separation of powers again) to Bernie’s signature issue, campaign finance reform — comprised 5 GOP-appointed justices in the majority, and that 3/4 who fought it were appointed by Democratic presidents Obama and — hey, GTFO!
Bill Clinton!
The essence of Puritopianism is pretending we elect a king, that Republicans don’t exist and don’t hold any power at the national scale, and that if we just cheer loudly enough in our little /r/PuritopianFantasyCircleJerk subreddit echo chamber of confirmation bias, we’ll somehow magically make the tens of millions of mostly older, deeply conservative Americans who drive those enormous Fox News ratings — and do actually vote — leap onto tables and demand a progressive revolution. Delusional.
Those of us who’ve banged our heads against the ultraconservative rock of GOP extremism for two or three decades know better. We saw this movie before (Nader 2000) and it gave us eight years of Bush-Cheney neoconservative hell. Inconveniently and inexplicably, 62,040,610 Americans voted for Dumbshit in the 2004 election after he started a disastrous war of choice against the wrong country.
But you’re right, we’re done here. See you at the polls.
