Reply #3: Dems/progressives need him to be re-elected. I don't see anyone to his left who could primary him [View All]

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successfully and win the general election, and even though I've been very disappointed by President Obama at times, the Republican alternative would be much worse.

And I feel that way more than ever after seeing all the legislation being pushed across the country by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), with its goals of privatizing services and selling off government assets including parks. ALEC's "State Budget Reform Toolkit" recommends doing that at state level, and they're trying to extend that to the local level now, too, going after assets owned by city and county governments.

ALEC is pushing legislation to have states try to claim federal lands by eminent domain. But they won't even need to do that if the GOP can control both houses of Congress and the White House. Then they can have the "yard sale" of federal lands including national parks that they've already started talking about (by the way, that topic was posted before I knew how organized these plans were, and how much ALEC had to do with this).