Corporate Democrats pretend, ludicrously, that Republican obstructionism is the main problem.

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155. I admire your naivete

But I'll match it to my orneriness any day.
I vote in every election, and I tend to vote for the Democrat, and never for the Republican. That being said, it takes the merest observance to recognize that interests other than those of the voters have bought and paid for our politicians. The only time they will ever do anything to help their constituents is if doing nothing is harmful to the corporate and SIG forces they actually represent.
To think otherwise is cow-eyed innocence at the slaughterhouse. I have to laugh at those who are disappointed in Obama. He has done exactly what I expected. The best thing about him is that he tends to let people know what he is going to do. During the debates, he told us he was going to smack Social Security, and he also told us we will probably be going into Iran soon.
But I'll keep on voting, and I'll keep on sending letters to my representatives. After all, maybe we will close Guantanamo, maybe we will get national healthcare, maybe we will have a sane energy policy, maybe we will invest in infrastructure and a jobs program, maybe we will investigate the Bush/Cheney debacle, maybe we will tax the rich, maybe we will have reasonable gun control, and maybe we will do the umpteen million things that anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see we need to do.
Declining to vote is to succumb to hopelessness.
But I will be damned if I will succumb to self-delusion.