"Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech"

[LiberalLovinLug]

145. Very well put

It has been actually quite enlightening from a sociologist angle to watch the process on DU since Dubya left office. I found this place in 2003 in order to be part of a community that was just as outraged and frustrated with the Bush cabal as I was. For the most part we were one voice. Since Obama was elected there has been an incremental but visible split on DU. Those that were slowly shocked and disappointed as the months and years went by watching the Democrats under Obama's leadership drift further and further to the right, where incidents like Rahm Emanuel calling those of us who hold more traditional Democratic Party values, "fucking retards", started giving us clues that this leader may not be the progressive, ...or liberal, he painted himself as during the primaries

.......and those that abandoned Party principles for a cult of personality. And so when the GOP was arguing a position from the extreme whacko reich wing, they have convinced themselves that it seems perfectly acceptable to support a leader who instead argued a position that would have been to the right of a Reagan or Nixon.

Personally I don't think Obama is a "right winger", any more than a "left winger". I think its become sadly clear that he is just another opportunistic politician who had and has no plans to rock the establishment boat. And like Tony Blair, who also turned out to be just another opportunistic lapdog to the 1%, is hoping to be richly rewarded by the powers that be once he leaves office for doing their bidding.

Sure he will side with socially liberal positions like gay marriage and even marijuana laws, (but only after the tide has turned on those issues) to opportunistically take advantage of the fact that Republicans are forced by their own rabid base to NOT take those same positions. Why wouldn't he? While those positions are a good thing, this only camouflages his capitulation to the ruling elite on the biggest issues like the Keystone pipeline, NSA spying on behalf of mulitnational corps, whistleblower persecution, and the slap on the wrist for Wall Street criminals. And not taking a stand for Net Neutrality, which I think is the biggest issue for free speech in decades to come.