Only One?

     I would find it hard to believe that I am the only one. I found myself very sad and disappointed after the election of November 4.  Not the results.  Well, I was very disappointed in the results, but even more than that I looked back and looked across the country and was disappointed that most of the Democrats ran away from their principles.  Democrats have often proclaimed that they have the best ideas.  They have the ideas and programs that would help most people: minimum wage increase, equal pay for equal work,  open voting, health care, immigration reform, wanting to acknowledge and respond to climate change, and the list could go one.  But the Democratic candidates did not preach those issues. At least, not in North Carolina.   When one looks at the President's record it is impressive: job growth for six years, inflation under control, wall street at all time high, profits meeting or exceeding the estimates, health care program working, deficit having the largest reduction in 8 years.  But Kay Hagan let them make her votes with Obama a problem. Why she did not proudly say I voted with Obama because he has the best programs for people.
     If Democrats had run on their principles and their accomplishments and lost then that would have been one thing, but the candidate in Kentucky would not eve admit to having voted for Obama in the 2012 election.  The Democrats did not make the Republicans the ones responsible for the gridlock, did not hit them on their opposition to everything proposed, on their cuts to social programs, to their failure to support repairing of our infrastructure, refusal to give help to hurricane victims, their refusal to fund Veteran affairs at the level suggested by Obama. Did not focus on the dangerous growing gap between rich and the rest of us.
     If we had run on these issues and lost, then swallowing the loss would have been a lot easier.  But we ran away from all those. In NC all we hear about was the evil money from the Koch brothers.