Reply #211: LOL! Judge by policy and progress not speeches, but... [View All]

[scentopine]

you are correct about this: The nation is mostly disengaged democrat-republicans and republican-republicans and continuing to move to the right. Obama and Rahm Emanuel have tapped in to this. They are following the trail blazed by right wing media 24/7. The media softens us up to desensitize us to corporate run government and right wing philosohies without a shred of analysis. Obama just needs to stay in the slip stream of all this, ever so slightly to the left to give the illusion that real change is possible.

But you are dead wrong about this: you will find that most of the cherished "real" democrats you allude to don't lift a finger for support or think much beyond the surface issues and tv fluff. There is real dialog and concern here between educated and active people. I'm not proud I campaigned for Obama, he has done nothing for the opposition to republicans in general except to move us more to the right using the strategy above, thereby stealing some voters away from the fringe but making us more like 1980 republicans than 2009 democrats.

Obama
B+ for speeches
D for policy and with threat of failure.

Bush
D for speeches
F for policy and confirmed failure

So yes, we are better off.