"Just because the Republicans are Snidely Whiplash doesn't make the Democrats Dudley Do-Right." -- Swami Beyondananda
Six years ago, I visited Washington, D.C. the week after Barack Obama was elected President. The mood was joyful and ebullient, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, like Jesus just landed in a spaceship. It was morning in America ... really.
I knew conservatives who voted for Obama because they saw him as a stand for functional governance, imagining he could clean up Dodge. But a lad, and a lack. Obama and the rest of the corporate Democrat establishment dodged the clean up. First came the bank bailouts, and then in his eagerness to govern from the center, Obama immediately began compromising with Republicans who had vowed to take no prisoners.
By the time the 2010 mid-term elections rolled around, Obama was playing defense, and a poor defense at that. Instead of scrapping underneath the basket, he was hoping to score three-pointers from the sidelines. And just like that, a mandate devolved into a man who couldn't get a date.
Then three summers ago I met Bill Ayers - the infamous SDS radical whom Obama purportedly consorted with in Chicago. So I asked him for his take on Obama. He replied that Obama is a conventional Chicago politician, and that both frightened conservatives and hopeful progressives projected their worst fears / greatest hopes on this blank projection screen.
To progressives, Obama was a slightly darker white knight here to save us on a dark night. Meanwhile, conservatives screamed, "Obama is a socialist!" (Of course as Swami pointed out if Obama were REALLY a socialist, he'd have a 70% approval rating.)
On the eve of the 2012 election, I wrote a piece for Huffington Post supporting Obama over Romney (and the corporate controllers behind him ready to take control) saying, "I'd rather have positive change in very small increments, than negative change in very large excrements."
Well, the excrement has now hit the fan, and we have a shituation.
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