For one, the Democratic Party nominated and supported, and put their blood sweat and tears into electing the first African American president in history.
This President passed the largest expansion of health care in history.
This President appointed 2 women, including a minority woman to the Supreme Court.
This President nominated and got confirmed, countless federal judges that support civil rights legislation and voting rights.
This President nominated and got confirmed the first African American Attorney General in history. That's right. The most senior law enforcement agent in the land was a black man.
I really could go on and on, but... how did we support him and his party?
We turned 2/3rds of the State Houses and both Houses of Congress over to T-Bagging racists after just 2 years of this Presidents term.
Imagine the judges that could have been confirmed. Imagine the progress that could have been made.
We could easily have a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court today. We could have hundreds of federal judges that would enforce the rule of law, not some racist Federalists Society jackboots.
It's not African Americans... it's Democrats as a hole. Change requires persistence. We can't turn the levers of power over to wingnuts in just 2 years, and then bemoan the fact that our priorities are not being addressed.
We must treat every election as critical to our priorities, because they are.
That's what is depressing to me.
I think of what the possibilities could have been.
It makes me so angry I can't see straight.