Do you support President Obama in regards to the recently disclosed NSA surveillance issue?

[Douglas Carpenter]

41. if we have to wait for the Reactionary Elements to be balked and neutered - we are to be waiting a

very, very long time. They pretty much dominate almost all of small town and rural America these days. They have a media empire way beyond anything progressives can hope to have for the foreseeable future. They pretty much monopolize the world of single issue voters. They are thought by many to own God and the flag. But they are still a minority and largely an aging minority many of whom will die off - unfortunately around about the time you and I die off. But what we do not have is a progressive alternative - In American political culture of today there simply is no progressive antithesis to respond to the reactionary thesis - So the synthesis that passes for the middle ground ends up being almost entirely defined by the reactionary elements. Given the pressures that the Democratic Party leadership have to serve the interest of financial power - I don't see what can neutralize that or allow progressive views into the mainstream - when the Party leadership has only financial power they have to worry about keeping on board - knowing full well that no matter how much progressives and liberals may whine and belly ache - the liberals and progressive will be with them come hell or high water.