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(32,139 posts)privatization and corporatization of public schools, selling off Gulf of Mexico for drilling, support for Trans-Pacific free trade agreement, implementation of massive surveillance of American citizens, brutal and coordinated crackdowns on peaceful protesters, arguing at the Supreme Court for warrantless surveillance and strip searches for any arrestee, escalating drone wars on civilians in sovereign countries with which we are not at war, new policies of targeting children and first responders in drone campaigns, and awarding medals for remote drone attacks, pressure on attorneys general for settlements for corrupt banks, advocacy of austerity budgets and repeated offering of SS and Medicare as bargaining chips, tying of SS to the general fund with payroll tax holiday, support of TSA naked scanning and groping, escalation of the war on marijuana, appointment of private prison executives to head the US Marshal's office and subsequent massive escalation of federal contracts for private prisons, etc., etc., etc..
He doesn't CAVE. He LEADS on these things. He is working aggressively for the interests of the one percent, because we have a problem of corporate money in government.