A friend and fellow Loudoun Democrat forwarded a wonderful op-ed by Frank Schaeffer. As a bit of background, Frank Schaeffer is the son of one of the founders of the religious right who has since come out strongly in favor of a more progressive America.

This post-election season, his reminders are worth reading.

Not since the days of the rise of fascism in Europe, the Second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any president led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any president faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition — from both the right and left.

As the president’s poll numbers have fallen over the last two years, so has his support from some on the left that were hailing him as a Messiah not long ago; all those lefty websites and commentators that were falling all over themselves on behalf of our first black president during the 2008 election.

The left’s lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling “prophecy” — snipe at the president and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend you didn’t have anything to do with it! The left wanted a rock star and got a president smarter than the talking heads. They wanted miracles and got hard work instead, they wanted magic and got the slogging reality of trying to govern. – Frank Schaeffer

The entire thing is well worth your time, if only for the itemize lists of challenges and solutions that the Obama Administration has already faced and implemented.

Governing is hard, but luckily Democrats do it well. After all, we’re the party that thinks Government should do stuff to make things better. Funny thing about that, in the past few years, we have!