Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

[truedelphi]

51. Are you sure you are right about this? I mean, can I ask you then how it

is that 6 yrs ago, the nation saw some 62.5% of all registered voters turned out for election day, 2008, to vote in a black man, who no one knew all that well, but who had chosen to run in the two months prior to his election to the Presidency as a progressive?

Even my Teabagger neighbor voted for him. He was populist, as in "Bring in some restrictions on the banks."

He was populist as in "Bring on the public option." View the Youtube that is pertinent:

It was only his decision to become an oligarch himself, and to choose people like Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton, for the top jobs in his government (along with many many Bush cronies) rather than the much wiser decision to remain true to his base that has put us into the quandry of not having any progressive people who are well known and available to run in 2016.

If he had put in Dennis Kucinich, Neal Barofsky or Brooksley Born to head up the US Treasury, if he had put in John Garamendi to have oversight on National Lands, rather than Mike Thompson, if he had put Barbara Boxer in as the Secretary of State, the United States would be a far different place right now, and we would have progressives who would have taken the nation in a different and much fairer direction, so that we would not now be the land of endless war, outsourced jobs, and Big Financial Firms Uber Alles.