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In reply to the discussion: Pres. Obama tells Dems, on TTP: "Get informed, not by reading the Huffington Post" [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)it's always been to delay reaction: cries that "TRUE liberals support the President," "the President doesn't have a magic wand," "the President is really liberal, here's the links" are blatantly false in the face of surges, secret wars in several countries, and Obama whipping Congress to pass bank bailouts; "wait to see what's in the bill" will mean that nobody should call or write Washington to complain in defense of Social Security, public option, etc.
the political system matches the economic system it proposes, and so they start acting the same way--the party's now run like a factory farm or a charter school
but what's most disturbing is the emptying-out of politics: Central American Liberal and Conservative parties were characterized by representing two slightly different owner classes, promises without programs, conservative and RW policy, running mostly on 50- or 80-year-old accomplishments or as the "party of (some guy killed 150 years before)"; if you ask voters why, they'll say because their whole family has always done so, or that they're just not the other party