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38. your attitude is so disempowering it takes my breath away. I truly am grateful we do not think this

way here in Sweden. Also, btw, how come when it is a Republican, many times with a hostile congress, not only do they make massive lurches to the right in terms of agenda, but are accorded a penumbra of Machiavellian evilness and power by those on your so-called left for doing so. YET when a Democrat fails to govern from the left and instead enables a corporatist agenda with a few 'progressive trinkets' tossed on top for appeasement, people such as yourself drone on about either 'it's centrist country' OR 'its the fucking Republicans in congress' (even when the Dems are in charge of both houses)? You cannot have it both ways, no matter how much you jump up and down for the pony.

Bottom line:

The world would be a far better place with 60 Bernie Sanders clones in the US Senate than 60 Barack Obama clones. Same goes for POTUS.

Life is too short to stop being idealistic, and true leaders can shape and change a nation for the better, not just resign themselves to limited, ineffectual change due to an inherent, predetermined admission that they are handcuffed by their perceptions of systemic projections of the powerful.