"Obama has governed as a conservative. So, the question for progressives is, “What do we do now?”

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236. so, what is a "hard" liberal?

the "liberal" media has helped in pushing the whole political spectrum to the right. Coming from a mostly democratic family, I've held those beliefs of the, I guess, old democratic platform. I guess believing in labor rights, not privatizing the shite out of government, not selling our resources to the highest global corporate bidder, not allowing big energy to pollute american cities water supplies, not cutting medicare, medicaid, SS is now "hard" left.

And yet, we on the "hard" left care what happens to the people in this country and the deteriorating infrastructure.

If anyone cared to read his book, you'd know obama had admiration for reagan, not so much FDR. From the beginning, he was not a progressive. However, after eight years of little boots feeding his war profiteering friends, perpetual war, giving tax giveaways to his already filthy rich friends at our expense; many people in this country felt like the long nightmare was over.

I will vote for obama, because that's the only choice I have. However, I have no illusions about how monied interests trumps the voice of the people.

And, people need to read the "shock doctrine." Because now, it's our turn. global corporations have no fealty to country, anywhere and everywhere they can make a buck and obtain the power, they'll do it.