Let me say up front that this is my first ever diary on a political blog. Ever.
I have been reading the Kos for a while now, and have seen how the tone has changed over the course of the election, as it has just about everywhere else. One of those places has been my own happy Democratic home.
Our marriage, which has weathered all kinds of hell, the likes of which would make Oprah's Book Club faint, is really struggling with the issues raised by this election.
And yet, just like all those challenges we met and vanquished in the past, we know this is going to make us stronger and more in love than ever.
If we can ever figure out what the hell is going on and how to talk to each other about it without having to put on flak jackets.
Sound familiar?
So. Kossacks. Follow me below the fold. My marriage, like our beloved Democratic Party, is in desperate need of intervention. Because the Party needs unity, badly, and can perhaps learn much from my serio-comic melodrama of a marriage. Whether that means a Party in unity or two factions in two twin beds remains to be seen.
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