2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)because it is of Obama.
I'm reading this as essentially...
Think the TPP and other "free trade" agreements are a lose for workers, the environment, and the balance of power between the people and the corporations? Better get over it.
Think Rubin/Summers/Geithner economics are a disaster? Get over it, Obama is with it so consider it sanctified.
Oppose dragnet surveillance and support the 4th amendment? Get over it because Obama.
Against Arnie Duncan's education deform and think we are selling our children and educators out and selling them short? Better learn to love it because Obama.
Obama embraces too many retreaded and failed Clinton policies so of course the Clintonite will continue them and they will continue to sell the people out no matter how much they shuck and jive or do the Jimmy Swaggart "I have sinned" routine m
and they keep on keeping on.
How do you correct problems when you must pretend they are good policy and embrace them?
We aren't even discussing the validity, downsides, and benefits of policies but who is behind them, I think is a friction builder of epic proportion. By definition there can be no reasonable and honest dialog in that environment.