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Yeah, I wish Obama was more progressive. I would love to see the politics of Sanders and Kucinich be accepted by more.
I don't think that's going to happen.
Barring a miracle candidate with the money of Midas I don't see a progressive candidate entering the fray. I still feel that even with all his flaws, Obama is the best we can do at the moment. He's not what I expected but he's better than Nixon.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)It is easy to attack the legislation that is being passed as not progressive enough. The thing is that even though we are getting watered down legislation passed at least we are not stripping regulations and shutting down departments like the EPA, they are just being slowly killed by the (R)s in the house.
We have stopped moving in the wrong direction on any number of issues. We aren't changing direction very fast but the President has limited power and he is facing an election next year. I think once he starts campaigning and presenting his own record to the American people he will look pretty good, not just good by comparison.
I'll settle for castles made of sand, for now.
Burgman
(330 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)made of sand are somewhat better than ice cream in the sky
but that is a great song, thanks for posting it
Burgman
(330 posts)Bows and flows of angel hair
Ice cream castles in the air...
MilesColtrane
(18,678 posts)Instead of "First, do no harm", it should be, "First, vote for the candidate who will do the least amount of harm, and who actually has a chance of winning".
unionworks
(3,574 posts)...hasn't been played. Yet.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)He's a moderate to the core. Always has been. Painfully consistently so.
wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)And neither are standing up for labor rights, regulating the banking industry, funding the space program, reestablishing civil liberties and privacy rights, or protecting public education.
They're things my parents and grandparents enjoyed and even took for granted which have been systematically dismantled over the past 30 years.
Obama may or may not be the best we can do for the moment, but there's no call for suggesting that a more progressive agenda equals living in fantasy land when 90% of that agenda is resisting roll-backs of already established programs and rights.
It's a myth that the country has moved fundamentally to the right when as many people as ever want don't want social security or medicare touched.
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My god, the EPA was Nixon.