How Obama Tried To Sell Out Liberalism In 2011
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I've asked Obama's 'most ardent supporters' a dozen different ways and they all keep dodging answering these questions. It looks like they all keep dodging even THINKING about these questions:
How do you think a win by Democrats in November would be interpretted by Obama, Democrats and the media? What do you think they will think they have a mandate to do?
Criticism and failing numbers in the polls have done nothing to persuade this president or this Congress to move to the left. What makes you think they're going to do in the next 2-4 years with less of a majority that they refused to do with a filibuster-proof senate?
Right before the midterms in 2010, Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress said that even with a Democratic victory they'd be caving more to the right. It was Obama who put Social Security and Medicare on the table, and now I see an article on HP where Ron Wyden is trying to sell his working with Paul Ryan as a good thing.
We've been doing it your way (the DLC's way) for 20 years now, and the government and the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right. If you and I are on the same side and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protecting Obama, reelecting DLC Democrats) is getting Republican policies and NOT Democratic policies, when do you realize that maybe you don't know what you're talking about?
When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insanity' ("Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results")?
Do you ever realize it?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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