You ain't gonna do shit

[delrem]

200. You are correct about this (quoting):

"95% of the core President Obama voters/Hillary Clinton voters are not protesting anything."
At this point there is no illusion that these folk aren't corporatists through and through, that they aren't identical in every military/economic way with a so-called "centrist" republican/dlc/third-way agenda, an agenda further right than Nixon dared set out. An agenda that "bipartisans" delight in claiming isn't shifting rightward with each week/month/year of a "negotiation" process that puts only right-wing policies on the table, and which preemptively concedes that the very existence of a "leftist agenda" is a sham not worthy of mention.

I want to correct you on one thing: Mitt Romney's core supporters aren't protesting a damn thing. Most of these didn't even bother to vote they were so fucking happy with Obama boasting of Romneycare as his greatest achievement (while Romney was forced to an even more extreme right that repudiated his own past. O&B = 60.7% vs R&R 37.5% in Mass.), slathering on backroom deals with the pharmaceutical companies as icing on that cake.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/14/obamacares-backroom-deal/

You might be so comfortable that you don't think that kind of backroom dealing, which flatly contradicts O's pre-election rhetorical posturing, makes a very big difference. But I'll tell you as someone who experiences the exact opposite under the Canadian health/pharmaceutical plans that it makes a huge difference indeed. Such a difference that no political party in Canada, no matter how far right, would dream of trying to emulate Obama on the direction he's taken the USA. There'd be blood on the streets. If you want to know why, look at the difference of pricing and policy of US vs Canada. So why as a Canadian do I even give a shit about the US? Because on essentially important issues like this the US holds us and the rest of the civilized world back, and the pressure that the US puts on to regress is a pain in the ass.

It's time for americans to realize that for all their incredible achievements as a country, they're headed down a blind alley of corporate and military absolutism, and that mixed socialist/capitalist economies are the wave of the future.

Obama didn't start some 80yr "revolution" in the US that'll lead to utopia in 2088. He stayed the course. He said it's better to look forward than to look back, which is the statement of a man who has no beef whatsoever with the past and who wants to use the momentum of the previous administration, W's, to pursue and hopefully accelerate the identical policies. And to understand the total fuxoredness of *that* little gem consider this write-up explaining the incredible contradiction that the man is capable of, that went under the radar of those like you who promote the continuation of a status quo:

When presidential sermons collide
Obama tells the Indonesians that looking backward to their past abuses is a prerequisite for moving forward
BY GLENN GREENWALD

http://www.salon.com/2010/03/25/obama_134/

Well, it's nice that he cares about Indonesia.