What remains unchanged or has worsened under Obama?

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188. Not exactly

Someone might come along who is determined to go against what Ike warned us about years ago — the military-industrial complex — but nowadays it's even more complex. It's the security-military-industrial-obstructionist-off-shoring-one percenter-voter suppression complex that would have to be taken on.

Elizabeth Warren seems to be that someone who doesn't have the prior obligations and ties to corporatism that would put her in good stead to at least began trying to dismantle the huge behemoth that has a stranglehold on our country.

And as far as that, I don't think there's any denying that this combination of forces exists. It's a matter of courage however, because power doesn't give up power voluntarily. That is what President Obama misunderestimated (if I may use a Bush-ism) when he took office. And he has the racism aspect as well to deal with. He of course also has ties and obligations to those who helped him get elected so even though his heart is in the right place, he isn't able to get accomplished anywhere near what's needed. He as well as anybody knows we need single payer health care but it couldn't be accomplished in the first step towards that so we have the ACA — better than before but not there yet.

After 4+ years it's becoming clear, to me at least, that the President is a transitional figure who represents, by his very ethnicity, the changing demographic of the country, which has given rise to the tea baggers and others who have dug in their heels to resist the changes that are already here, with more coming.

The next president, and we better hope it's a Democrat from the democratic wing of the Democratic Party will be the one to take it farther. And, like I said, it will take courage because power doesn't give up
volun . . . anyway, you know the drill.