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In reply to the discussion: By Ditching the Public Option, Obama Gave His Enemies a Path to the Supreme Court [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)For the past three years the President has been a master of forcing the Republicans to cast aside any pretense of decency in order to protect their awful, harmful core interests.
What we have all personally witnessed as a result tells us that Republicans are now clearly against non-white people, small businesspeople, poor people, women... and the sick. We are also seeing firsthand how the GOP controls even supposedly nonpartisan government institutions such as the Supreme Court, how their toxic influence helps to lower the quality of life of Americans every single day.
Maybe that is enough to get the message across that if Americans want their government to help improve their lives rather than shoveling profits to protected private interests, they have to run every last scurrilous Republican rascal out of office.
Maybe this is how a centrist, populist President finally begins to rip political control of our government out of the hands of political parties controlled by shadowy private interests and puts it back in the hands of some very pissed off people.
At least I hope it is.