It's you that's buying into the DLC's "The devil (Republicans) made us do it"-propaganda.
There's no denying the step-by-step actions that have gone on for the last 30 years, how Democrats have been complicit in the corporatization, the deregulation, the privatization, of government.
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want.
The DLC-controlled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like living wages, civil rights protections, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare, Wall Street reform, environmental and energy issues, etc.).
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything and ANYONE to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that BushCheneyRove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; BushCheneyRove were just more ruthless in doing what politicians and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks, don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination) and the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching BushCheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks?
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but "those mean, corrupt Republicans prevent our good intentions".
Republicans, with the smallest numbers, smallest minority in decades, have been able to thwart what the great majority of American citizens want, yet Democrats, with the greatest numbers, can't achieve what Republicans did (obstructing the other side) when Republicans took over the House.
Democrats could have (and can) changed the filibuster rules but didn't. With Senate rule 22, Harry Reid could've actually forced Republicans to filibuster at any time (and did when it suited the DLC, and saw Republicans crumble), but didn't.
The challenge for Democratic politicians has been to try to convince us that they're merely inept and to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.
Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters') to understand that Democratic politicians have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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