more and more people sink into poverty every day. Based on indisputable evidence, we see our legislators acting undemocratically on behalf of the wealthy private interests that line their pockets. The system is broken, and few if any working within the system are making any effort whatsoever to fix it.
We question the myriad of dubious policies and practices, and get no reasonable explanations for why these regressive policies and practices are enacted and continue to be enacted as we stand by, powerless, handcuffed to a flagpole by a corrupt system controlled by wealthy private interests, while the parade of kinder, gentler fascists marches by, spitting in our faces as they do so.
You want us to stop criticizing the President and the government?
Then get them to do something to at least try to fix the problems we face, rather than being part of the cause of the problems we face.
I voted for Obama, and always vote for Democrats, and honestly, I did not expect much, because it was apparent to me that Obama was going to primarily serve wealthy private interests as Prez, although I had fervently hoped that I was wrong, and that Obama and the huge majorities of Democrats in both Houses that we elected would do something to attempt to fix the system in the name of the people and democracy. But all they did was further the interests of the 1% instead, causing many to lose faith, and subsequently the House and Senate seats in 2010, the consequence of this being the loss of all hope for change.
And we watch as the apologisitificators tell us how we should STFU, should not question authority, how the President and government only shit rubies and flowers, how whistleblowers are evil and need to be silenced for exposing corporate and official corruption, how social justice movements are evil, and how we should just bend over and let the Military Industrial Complex eternally fuck us in the ass without any lube with their "terror" and their drones as they give more and more of our rights and resources away to the wealthy private interests that own the corporations they insist are actually persons.
We're not naive, we're not blind, and we're not stupid. We don't want to bring down the President. We simply want him to act in our interests, (imagine that!) and if he cannot, then look us all in the eyes and deign to offer us a reasonable, factual, sincere public explanation as to why he cannot act in our interests.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." ~ Abe Lincoln
Is Obama better than a republican? I believe so. Is he governing like a Democrat who is determined to preserve the democratic rights of the citizens of this country and restore and further the democratic integrity of our nation?
No.
Hell no.
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. "
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Recommendations Relative to the Strengthening and Enforcement of Anti-trust Laws"
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