The filbuster sell-out kind of explains Obama's "surprisingly liberal" inauguration speech.

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86. Corporate Democrats will always feign naivete and try to make it about Obama.

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This isn't about Obama, or any single politician. The real power behind the scenes is Wall Street, and the purpose of the game is to use government and the purchased two-party system to build and perpetuate a long-term system that feeds, protects, and grows the wealth and power of the one percent.

Obama is temporary. The parties aren't, and neither are the corporate forces that orchestrate policy and the means by which to implement it. There is tremendous corporate interest in maintaining the illusion of the Democratic Party as a representative of the people, while simultaneously rigging the game so that the people's interests can never really be achieved. That is the game that Marr so importantly outlines in this OP, and we see it used against us, elegantly, over and over again...even as the names and faces involved change.

Our problem is not Obama or any single politician. They are all temporary tools of the oligarchy and merely symptoms of the larger problem. Our real problem is the deep and systemic corruption of our political process and the two-party system by corporate money, and the fact that the direction of policy never changes from administration to administration anymore, no matter which party is in charge.