The Randian Libertarians running the GOP now only reflect what more realistic Republicans had to submit to when they were faced with progressive Democratic majorities everywhere they went, from state houses to legislatures and upward. The battle is local, what we see playing out in D. C. is a reflection of apathy and letting these guys control the agenda.
No Democrat should ever be deluded into thinking any Republican supports any social safety net since it's at odds with the business model. To have a 'hard-working and thrifty working class' you have to hold the whip of homelessness, starvation, social stigma and personal endangerment from your fellows in their minds all the time with your media shills. Survival mode, kill or be killed, run to the powerful fascists for protection. This is pretty much the reality that's been sold to us.
Progressives should remember that no matter how much is flung at him, Obama is not going to let them privatize Social Security, and this is why they've hated him like no other POTUS since FDR. It's not just his being black, it's that he might have learned along the way that we are all together.
He says that often, 'let's all pull together.' This is the heart of socialism. But liberals better learn he can't do it all by himself and that their vote for POTUS isn't all that's needed to keep this country from going to hell. Gotta fight this out locally and get Democratic majorities in the government. Or kiss it all goodbye.
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