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In reply to the discussion: Constantly referring to President Obama as a "used car salesman" is expected of a RW racist. [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I give Obama credit for more than his graduated removal of troops. His liberal policies for the gay community is an example. Civil rights for the rest of us, drone program, reversing military commissions act, not so good.
The message that mollifies to the international community, I particularly don't give him credit for. Like someone else here said, this was the opportunity to point out how both Bush was wrong while contrasting Putin.
But, here again, we drift away from the central reason so many in our party are detached and distrusting. We have fewer civil rights now and are in full swing with corporatism. I continue to fight it from the state to the local level. We cannot get around who owns us (US) by our civil freedoms, and voices are being stamped out every day.
I won't even get into how fracking is plowing through and how we are dismissed. Our state general assemblies are corporate owned. Main Street is calling, but Wall Street is being heard and Citizen's United has ruled the day. Big Pharmaceutical and Wall Street are given a price of doing business with each law they break and life they toss away.
We are owned. We are being told to shut the fuck up about it, and I won't fucking stand for it, even if I'm placated by our president, I won't stand for it. The only other thing to do is
what the people always wanted anyway. Get our jobs back let the labor movement bargain in fair practice, present a level playing field for each state to develop wind, solar, geothermal and other sustainable industry, and give us single payer health care so we can start saving money giving health care.
These are the thing we must do now, not eventually.