
Running, as Democrats, politician
s who are for all intents and purposes Republican
s doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Not if what you say you want and what you believe in are Democratic policies and legislatio
n. What you get are elected officials who are more than willing to sell out their base groups's interests. Women's and the pro-choice movement's interests (and by extension, the economics of 'women's'-
issues, 'families'
-issues, and the poor and middle classes') have been especially sold out by Democratic politician
s, and Obama's been particular
ly 'oily' (slippery) on these issues. So much so that even his most staunch defenders can't agree on whether Obama's a centrist or a liberal. [
Psssst, the debate is over: "Privately, Obama describes himself as a BlueDog Democrat", i.e., he might as well re-register as a Republican.]
One example of how Democrats and Obama are real free and easy "compromis
ing away" a base group's interests is Democrats' healthcare legislatio
n which opens the door to
ending insurance coverage of all abortions). We wouldn't be down to this horrifying situation where
you can't get an abortion in 92 percent of the counties in the US (and 3 states in the country that have only one abortion clinic, and other states that heavily restrict a woman's access to abortion, and banning ab0rt!ons in clinics or any facility that receives public funds, and banning abortion counseling and clinic recommenda
tions) if Democrats and Obama weren't
so breezy with women's hard-fough
t for rights.
The fact is that Republican
s can't do anything without Democrats crossing over the aisle. 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 marginaliz
e the extreme fringe right that's now controllin
g the Republican
Party, along with the base of the Democratic
Party (70 percent of Democratic voters). Then they'd "govern the country for 100 years".
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