As A Lifelong Democrat... Are You Satisfied With The "Hope And Change" That Was Promised In 2008 ???

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76. I voted satisfied and that may be a surprise -

so I will explain.

We have a government which has never really been a democracy or open for all despite the pretty words. Words that come to my mind are much different - European land grab, murder of indigenous peoples, slaves, 2/3 of a person, women and children are chattal, only white landowners vote, capitalism, economic inequality, entitlements, Trayvon Martin ... you get the idea.

I breathed a sigh of relief in January 2009 when Bush got on that helicopter and actually left DC.

No, it has not been a pretty clean-up and republicans have obstructed every minute since Obama took office. But I think he has been a decent administrator in that the country has been calm, he managed the the banking and auto bailouts, and there has been a bit of a recovery in some cities.

The real problems we have - the continued economic inequality, loss of jobs, continued violence towards minorities and women - those are things that are not going to be solved by executive order.

We need to be in the streets protesting, forming unions to fight back against the Walmarts of the world, and doing the work locally to toss out judges like the one in the Trayvon Martin case. In fact, I'd go further and suggest we do what we can to align ourselves with workers worldwide to fight global capitalists.

I know some folks want an easy fix. They want to elect Elizabeth Warren and have her do the heavy lifting. Unfortunately put in the same spot I don't think she'd do much differently (although we might get some better cabinet appointments - I'll grant you that). I think it is going to take continued work and advocating not only from us - but from many others in this country - to make the needed changes.