For many people Obama is not a "lesser evil." For the privileged, he can be.

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136. I disagree that it's a change/schism in Democrats across the nation, though.

I absolutely agree with you that there has been a huge change in the party, and I also agree with you that we'll probably see the rise of a liberal third party if Democrats across the country don't hurry up and get serious about taking our own party back.

But I think it's important to clarify that what we are dealing with is not a grassroots change among voting Democrats, but a planned, deliberate, top-down infiltration bankrolled by corporate America.

Polls show very clearly that Americans still back and hunger for traditional Democratic values and policies, including protecting Social Security and Medicare and investing in our people and cities rather than banks, drone wars, and the surveillance state. Approval ratings for Congress are in single digits precisely BECAUSE people experience that our representative institutions have been purchased and are no longer working for and representing us.

We are subject to constant propaganda and lies about what is electorally possible and what Americans really want, because the one percent who are hijacking our government and our political parties have very deep pockets with which to infiltrate our media wherever it exists, down to discussion boards on the internet.

It's pretty damned revealing that, after years of lecturing us that liberal policies just are too "fringe" and not popular enough even to be considered in Washington, our politicians inevitably pivot LEFTWARD in their rhetoric during election season in order to attract voters.