Why I cannot support Hillary Clinton

[Rilgin]

202. There were a few other things that happenned within weeks

You are partially right. But, you also forget that within weeks of his inauguration, he had appointed Raum Emmanuel as chief of staff. Had an economic team from Goldman Sacks and Citi. As referred to in another post, he let OFA dissolve which was the source of supporters feelings of being part of a movement. He went from mobilizing millions on the mall to negotiating with Republicans behind closed doors during those weeks. This led to some of the dismay that you correctly saw amongst activists and leftists who really had hoped that he meant Change when he campaigned on it.

At his inauguration, BHO had Rick Warren give a prayer. This meant to some of us that we had been fed some form of bill of goods in the Hope and Change and Yes we can message. Some of us knew before hand, during the primary, that he was putting on a false face. BHO is a fine man and a relief after Bush but he is not a radical and Change was just an advertising slogan that appealed to what people wanted. He played on these desires to get elected not because this was what he was. He is a DLC moderate and always was. This corresponds to his own view of himself and his policies as akin to a moderate republican of prior decades. Of course he said this only after he was elected.

BHO's first election campaign was based like most politicians on slight of hand. When he said Hope and Change, most people thought he meant real substantial change. Big changes. His term has been full of small incremental changes. The one major change (the ACA) was explained by him not a change but designed explicitly to not disturb the American health care system.

Bernie Sanders has no history of such ties to the status quo. He is not DLC has no ties to the Democratic power structure. There is no fear of him appointing a status quo economic team. It is indeed a question of what he will get through congress since he will fight for real substantial change in the American economic system. However, there is no confusion as to what he wants. We will not have to hold his feet to the fire to be part of Yes, We can. He is actually party of the We and not above it.