Pelosi has been shut out of new TPP negotiations by the White House and House Republican leadership

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79. In a recent video, Obama said he would be considered a Republican if it were the 80s.

Anyone have that snippet?

None of this surprising. We ARE in a corporate state, and the Democratic Party has become a back-bencher to the GOP in the latter's allegiance to corporate power. ANY views or policies which smack of ANYTHING to the left of Eisenhower will be vigorously opposed by the Party. And since these views will originate with liberal-progressives, they will face constant opposition from the Party "leadership," much more so than the GOP. The Republicans' work is done regarding its packaging of liberals; in fact, it is superfluous in the face of the effective work to isolate and denigrate progressive Democrats by their own Party leadership.

I sometimes wonder that the reason for Obama's candidacy was not based on opposition to Hillary and her policies (there seemed too little to quibble about), but instead was based on the view that she was too vulnerable, even against the usual right wing humdrum of the GOP. Obama's candidacy, however, brought in more of the increasingly disaffected Party progressives than Hillary could, and those progs could be easily and contemptuously dismissed afterwards.

These are tough times. Progressive liberal thought will be opposed vigorously by both parties, and in large measure by MSM. And the atmosphere on the street is militant apathy, and distrust of not only ideology and ideals, but of the very notion anything can be done for the better.