Remember ten years ago today, when Barack Obama was elected President? Remember when we were n the cusp of a golden age? Remember when we were at the dawn of a positive, enlightening era? Neither can I. Because almost as soon as Obama took office, it was back to business as usual. Then it got worse - Citizens United, the Tea Party, the rise of voter suppression and cuts to social programs an amenities, the return of climate-change denial (marginal risk of severe thunderstorms in the New York area - in November! - this Election Day) and a bunch of centrist weenies in the Democratic Party who lost the House, the Senate, governorships, and then gave us Hillary Clinton, the last brick in the road to hell taken by Donald J. Trump.
So what went wrong? Obama couldn't coordinate his Organizing For America's abilities to get Democratic voters activated and engaged with the Democratic National Committee's abilities to . . . to . . .to . . .. Well, I don't know what the Democratic National Committee has the ability to do, except write off blue-collar voters and rig the primary vote for its preferred presidential candidate (the latter ability failed them in 2008, when Hillary first ran). And that golden age? Last time I checked, there are no high-speed passenger rail lines, no universal health coverage, no sensible gun laws, no sensible auto fuel-economy standards, no support for the arts, none of that stuff. And ten years to the day after we elected our first black President, the Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, who is also the Georgia Secretary of State, is investigating an unsubstantiated charge of the state Democratic Party trying to hack the state voter registration database to thwart the election of the nation's first black female governor.
Dear Democrats: This is your last chance to get it right. If you screw up this time, you are going . . . to Whig . . . out. And no one will miss you.
And in a hundred years, it won't matter who the first black President was.
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