I saw something around the internet a few times today that I haven't seen in awhile, which was the IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT LIBERALS FOR STAYING HOME DURING THE 2010 ELECTION reasoning.
I've never quite known what to make of this. I mean, yeah, parts of the Dem base tend to not vote as much as they should in non-presidential election years. Perhaps the people who collect and earn millions of dollars to run campaigns should figure out how to reach these people? Perhaps all the consultants who are convinced House races should be local personality-driven affairs should make the obvious inference that the difference between these elections and presidential-year elections is that the latter are run on nationwide party-wide themes and policies? If these people matter, perhaps you should stop punching them?
It's offered up as a rebuke to complaining liberals. Basically: it's the fault of you people! You didn't vote. Well, you know, I voted, not that Bob Brady needed my vote. I imagine just about every liberal person engaged in politics online voted. A few might have been pissed off enough not to, but these are basically phantom people. Pissed off internet political junkies who stayed home didn't swing a single election.
What I do remember about 2010 was that nobody was even trying. Vote Dem because.... (???) And, look, I'm on team D. They're still less evil than the other guys. I can make the case for voting Dem. The people whose job it was to make that case? They didn't bother to try.
