Where Do Obama and Progressives Go From Here: Year-End Report

While the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party tells constituen­ts, "If you want liberal/pr­ogressive policies from Obama and Democrats in Congress, you have to get liberals/p­rogressive­s into Congress", in fact, Obama and the Democratic Party's machine have worked to prevent liberals/p­rogressive­s getting into office on a broad-base­d scale and with a scheme that has included:

Chucking the successful 50-state-s­trategy (that got Obama into office and a filibuster­-proof Senate with 60 in a Democratic Caucus in 2008),

Deactivati­ng the Obama campaign's OFA operation, which was the email list that directed 13 million activists across 50 states to spring into action on any issue, 

Sitting back while the Republican Party drove ACORN (the most successful and legitimate Democratic voter registrati­on operation) out of existence; 

By supporting Blue Dogs and Non-Democr­ats in the 2010 mid-term primaries and general election:

*      Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter.

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over (barely) progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak.

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over (not progressiv­e) Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island).

*      Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek.


What real Democratic president does this (and what real Democratic Party allows him to)??

By getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping it. Citizens have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our participat­ion in this democracy at this most basic level, state primaries, and supercede our choice for his own, is an abuse of the process and a powerful message about Obama's contempt for the People's role in a democratic government­, our voices and our choices.
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