Bernie Sanders is and continues to be critical of President Obama

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118. Nonsense that constituencies need to change.

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The incessant repetition by the propaganda brigade of what you just wrote *still* does not make it true.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4357158

As you already know but persist in ignoring, polls consistently and repeatedly show that that the electorate is far more in agreement with Bernie Sanders on the major issues than the corporate candidates we are offered, over and over again. Across party lines, voters favor protecting SS and Medicare, they despise austerity, they want to curb the surveillance state, they want to invest in schools and infrastructure, and they want to cut military spending.

And the proof of the lie is that candidates pivot LEFTWARD every single election season to win voters. They lie and say that they will support a public option, or protect Social Security, or rein in the NSA, because they know that is what voters want to hear. But as soon as the election is over, it's back to the business of the one percent.

The Tea Party is bankrolled by big business. So is the Third Way. The Third Way was never a grass roots phenomenon. It is a deliberate infiltration of the Democratic Party, bankrolled by corporate interests.

We have a systemic problem of corporate money driving policy in both parties now. That is what happens when corporations buy elections. And ABSURD posts like the one you just made are what happens when corporations buy the media.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4357824

Barack Obama was swept into office in a landslide in 2008 after a campaign trumpeting promises to be a champion for progressive policies and the 99 percent. He promised to protect Social Security, put on his "walking shoes" for labor, rein in the surveillance state, insist on a public option, close GITMO, hold banks accountable, increase transparency, etc., etc., etc.

We all know what happened once he got into office.

And they will try it again in 2016...because seeking votes requires it. They will pivot leftward. Hell, they are already trying to pivot leftward for the midterms. We already have the ABSURD spectacle of a President claiming he wants to focus on "income inequality" while simultaneously pushing the most predatory, secretive, 99-percent-assaulting "free trade" agreement in history.

Don't blame voters who do the best they can, given a system that has been deliberately and fundamentally corrupted to make it almost impossible for candidates not backed by dirty corporate money to compete.