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In reply to the discussion: You know, Obama has disappointed a lot of people..... [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)lobbyist money in the history of the United States for a reason. I knew that the political class and the media would not have been talking him up as a future President of the United States when he was still only an obscure state senator from Illinois if he was the sort that would actually challenge the power structure.
I also know that somewhere around 40% of the American population are convinced he is a socialist and a radical leftist. We live in very distorted times where it is very difficult for a principled liberal, left or progressive person to be very optimistic about the future. It is the simple reality that the current Democratic Party is simply the old moderate to moderately conservative Republican Party and the Republican Party is the old John Birch Society type lunatic right-wing fringe. There are not enough New Deal Democrats in Congress or any other elected office for that matter to swing a cat at and the left exist only in Vermont, on the Internet and a few college and university campuses.