Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality?

From day one, Obama schemed to make sure that single payer advocates were blocked from the national discussion and legislativ­e process.   And once that was assured (through the dangling of the possibilit­y of it happening later, down the road, through the expansion of a public option which would be part of the  current healthcare reform), Obama then worked a secret backroom deal undercutti­ng the congressio­nal committees working on the legislatio­n.  In the final weeks, when a public option was about to be slipped in, Obama blocked it.  Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' still insist Obama is going to get a public option through.  They're the only ones who do, and refuse to believe even this.

Obama's been particular­ly 'oily' (slippery) on all Democratic groups' issues. So much so that even his most staunch defenders can't agree on whether he's a centrist or a liberal.  [Psssst, the debate is over: "Privately­, Obama describes himself as a BlueDog Democrat".]

The fact is that Republican­s can't do anything without Democrats crossing over.  Faux Democrats are the problem.  They got into Congress because of the DLC's plan, hatched a couple of decades ago, to turn the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party, and thereby marginaliz­e the extreme fringe right that's now controllin­g the Republican Party, along with the base of the Democratic Party (70% of Democratic voters).  All so these power-hung­ry, greedy DINOs (who couldn't gain traction within the Republican­Party had they begun their careers there) could prosper from a "centrist" (right-of-­center) Democratic Party.  Then they'd "govern the country, for 100 years".

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