Reply #39: Ding! Ding! Ding! [View All]

[AgainsttheCrown]

That last sentence is spot on. We needed someone that would attempt fundamental change to the system. His lack of leadership has allowed our system to get to the point that the damage may be irreparable (from within).

We needed a course correction...a counterrevolution to the Reagan-Bush revolution. And instead we got a deceleration of the speed we're careening towards the cliff.

And I'm not saying that he's a Republican, but he's going with political flow. Just like Clinton and Nixon did with divided governments.

(There is no doubt in my mind that we would have been turned in to a fascist state if Nixon had a Republican congress. But he didn't. He went with the flow and passed some progressive programs.)

A better model for how to run a divided government was Reagan. He strongly made his case, but had to negotiate with Democrats to get it done.

As an eloquent speaker, I think that if Obama strongly made his case for robust reforms and failed after calling out the entrenched interests that impeded it, that the American people would have given him a stronger congress. And although the Corporate media would have diluted his message. He would have projected strength by being principled and that is hard to dilute.

Given his character, Obama may have been better than Clinton was during the 90's in the same position, but not for today's times. We're teetering on the edge. Hopefully our Plutocratic overlords won't give us that final push.