Do you know who's utimately responsible for our current situation?

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. No disrespect intended, but Obama lived in a bubble of his own making

And that was a big part of his appeal and something I too admired in the man. His optimism about the country working together. His "there are no Red States, there are no Blue States, only the United States of America" speech at the 2004? convention, sealed his nomination in 2008.

But he seemed to stubbornly keep holding onto that impossible ideal even as Trump and the tea party were promoting Birther conspiracies, and posting monkey faces.

It was long past the time to fight back. I'm sure Biden was a big influence as VP. I think even Biden has had the wool pulled over his eyes with his talk on Jimmy Kimmel last week on how McConnell is a "reasonable" man that he could work with. Jimmy tried to interject about the refusal to nominate a Supreme court justice in the final year of Obama, but then pushed through a pick with 2 weeks before the 2016 election. But Joe pretended he didn't hear it.

Maybe it was just a political move to not alienate EVERY Republican leader. But it smacked of hanging on to a fantasy long dissipated. It has to be clear now that its a war between the Trump Party, who Mitch has obviously decided to capitulate to after a brief moment of a raised eyebrow after Jan. 6th, who want to destroy democracy because its not working for them, ........and truth, reason, justice, and democracy itself.