I’ve rewritten this post in my head about a zillion times now. It’s one of those swirling ideas in my head that really needs more time to properly set up, but I’m impatient as all get out. So you get the raw brain bits.

I told Deek in one of our email spats that “I am the canary in the fucking coal mine” but that’s not it exactly. The canary at least gets to die off early. Instead, I think that I (and quite a few angry Anti-Obama Dems) are the frogs that feel the hot water first. We’re swimming around in a pot that looks like a jacuzzi and everytime we complain that the water just keeps getting hotter, the other frogs say “Get over it. Chilax. It’s a jacuzzi baby. It’s supposed to be warm”.

Thing is, we still boil with the other frogs, even if we know it’s coming.

Those distinctions that once made the Democratic Party better than the Republicans are gone. We say “hey, what about being the Big Tent Party. You can’t be the Big Tent party if you’re kicking people out for being working class or brown” and the other frogs say “Ahh we don’t need them”.

So we say “Hey we can’t be the party of equality if we’re insulting millions of women” and the other frogs say “Get over it you angry bitches”.

We say “What about privacy and freedom” and the other frogs swallow hard and try to pretend like the FISA vote never happened.

Then we say “What about separation of Church and State?” and a few of the other frogs throw a tantrum thinking they’ve been had. But we didn’t really think it was a surprise. The water’s been getting pretty hot in here for awhile.

Obama’s turning up the heat on the pot of water that is the Democratic Party. And we all boil together. We can leave the party, we can vote for someone else (or not at all) and we can hold our noses and vote for him. The result is still the same. We all boil together.