you kind of have to ask yourself - "whose side is Obama on?"

[tex-wyo-dem]

62. Hasn't that been the plan all along?

To basically transform the Democratic Party into a right leaning, big-business friendly party to support the policies of the well-healed. As you said, it basically now resembles the Republican party pre-Reagan.

I'm convinced that the Dem party was slowly infiltrated and transformed starting in the '70s, to turn it into a moderate-right wing party that would basically not be (or be less of) a threat to the 1%. Meanwhile, the Rethugs would push the agenda way out rightward in an effort to push the overall politics in that direction.

It's all kabuki theater at this point...Washington works for certain people, and it ain't you and me. Now, as far as the PTB is concerned, it really doesn't matter which party is in power. If the Dem leadership tries to get too cute with their regulations and consumer protections to throw a bone to their base, or otherwise tries to implement policy that would threaten the profits of a major industry (see healthcare), then there are enough RW Dems and Rethugs to shoot any real progress down. Even the anemic AHA is now being attacked by the RW power structure to completely neuter it. To think we will ever get close to even considering single-payer or Medicare-for-all with the current situation is laughable.

The Federal Government, not to mention many state and local governments, are corrupt to the core. They work for those with money, lots of it...period. The rest of us can go spit and live under a bridge somewhere for all they care.

The only thing that will turn this around is what was started last Fall.