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in addition to the Derivative Crash of '08, Citizens' United, Congress, and the bullshit that happened in the 2010 vote, include the fact that there really isn't anything organized and effective enough to be a functional force to contend with from the authentic Left.
And what calls itself the Left is too busy counting political coup by trying to make him a one-termer to make it possible for them to have a seat at the table. By promising to destroy him with their votes, they weaken their own positions, so no one HAS TO take them seriously and no seat at the table.
I have come up with what seems to be a pretty good hypothetical explanation for what Obama is going. It is based on something we heard a lot in 2008, "We ARE the ones we have been waiting for." Obama know he CAN'T do it for us and even if he tried, how much of it would be what we need/want since we aren't the ones making it happen? Hmmmm? And what happens to whatever he does for us once his administration is over?
And isn't the essential problem, one of the most important things that IS, in significant part, responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place, the fact that the People have been too reactionary, too dis-engaged, too passive, too alienated? What is the best way to get people up off their butts and doing stuff? Preaching at them? Begging them? Cheerleading? Flattery? How about THREATENING them by allowing the very real ugliness and unprincipled avarice of their enemy to expose itself? How about THREATENING them with the LOSS of some stuff that they REALLY need?
I don't want to downplay all of the negative factors in our situation, nor ANY mistakes, but given the basic assumption that there is only just so much that any one entity, or government, can do for EVERYONE, is it not possible to see much of what has happened over the last 3 years as framing the question, "What are Y-O-U willing to DO?"
"We ARE the ones that we have been waiting for" is more than a pretty, nice, buzzzzzzzy slogan. It's a blueprint. President Obama has been posing situations, some in response to how negative things in fact ARE, and some in order to assess the situation with questions such as: WHO will DO something? WHAT will they do? How EFFECTIVE can they be?
It is the answers to those question that as much, or maybe even MORE, will determine what happens.
I read somewhere, during the Reverend Wright frenzy which occurred appx when we were also talking about Hillary's thesis on Saul Alinsky, that while working around Chicago's Catholics back when, Barack Obama encountered Liberation Theology and I don't want to present myself as an expert, nor to oversimplify LT, but I believe one of it's basic tenets, and one of the reasons that LT has caused trouble in the RC for its tragically dangerous effects in Central America, is that one of the most important things LT says the Oppressed NEED to do to BEGIN to achieve spiritual development is to DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT THEY WILL DO and then stake their own identities and honor on that work in the face of the powers that be NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
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It's an ironic footnote that though the Pope chastised the Jesuits (I believe it was) who were doing that kind of work in one or more Central American countries (sorry, I can't remember which ones, but there were quite a few people killed for not taking a side in the drug wars down there and trying, instead, to do their own thing - honest to God modern-day martyrs!) anyway . . . even though the Pope chastised some Liberation Theologist types for their activities, South and Central America have since become huge expansion territories for American Evangelism in the last 10 years, which I'd bet a dollar-to-a-donut is of the Dominionist type because that accounts for the rapid expansion in countries that are already mostly Christian . . . the difference being that in Liberation Theology work is supposed to be a personal expression of one's and one's community's deepest self, kind of like Socialism, whereas in Dominionism it's probably pretty much anything for a buck, with a different more capitalistic economic model, which you may have noticed this last week or two produced at least one very BIG religious crook who embezzled millions from his evangelical religious ponzy scheme.
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Sorry about rambling!! There's just been so much that has puzzled me about this President and I just recently think I finally see something through all of the noise.
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