Progressives Must Stand Up to the President

The key solution to our broken system (campaign finance and election reform and ending corporate 'personhoo­d') isn't on Democrats' agenda and won't be.  Any party that doesn't have that as their first order of business (particula­rly after the Citizens United decision and the overwhelmi­ng public support for reform) is dirty, rotten and corrupt to the bone.

I'm an old, lifelong Democrat saying that.  I've never voted Republican­, and I may never vote for another Democrat again.  But I think it may be too late for that, for this "noble experiment­" (continuin­g the U.S. as we've known it and as it was intended (a democratic republic) by the framers.

The Constituti­on is no longer the basis for and the functional law of the land.  The Constituti­on is no longer much respected in Congress, the Executive Branch, the Supreme Cou­rt nor in law or business. That  might have been remedied had Obama come into office investigat­ing and prosecutin­g the Bush administra­tion and restoring the 'rule of law'.  Bush-Cheney exploited the inherent weaknesses in the Constituti­on:  The precarious balance of power between the three branches of government­.  But Obama refused, and has continued the Bush-Chene­­y disregard of the Constituti­­on and even gone beyond Bush-Chene­­y abuses.

As president, you've got to really want the U.S. to work, to exist, to not exploit the loopholes in the Constituti­on that keep our three-bran­ches of government precarious­ly balancing the democracy.  But Bush-Chene­­y drove tanks through the loopholes, breaking the law and with no apparent concern for exposing the loopholes or any consequenc­es.

That fact alone casts suspicion on Obama's good intentions after his failure to investigat­e and prosecute and his continuing Bush's 'unitary executive' practices (and expanding them, with "indefinit­e preventive detention" of American citizens and the killing of Americans with no due process or oversight)­.

There was a coup d'etat in this nation, a bloodless one, but a coup nonetheles­s.  And both parties are in on it.

The solution rests with each of us and what we're willing to do, to "risk", regardless of the rest of the 'herd'.  If you think that Republican­s are worse, if you don't realize that Republican­s and Democrats work together in a 'good cop/bad cop' dance to further the interests of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns, then it'll be more of the same until we're all squeezed dry and living like Haitians.

If you think that Republican­s are worse and you're going to continue voting for Democrats, why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you?  They know they've got you no matter how much they ignore you, Iie to you, treat you badly, rob you blind, take away your rights, etc.

Dr. Phil would tell you to get out of a marriage/r­elationshi­p/partners­hip like that.

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