2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Explains How He Would Deal With An Obstructionist Congress [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)You do not rally a mass movement by talking to the corporate media and saying call congress. Do you think that's how the teabaggers call out to their people? NO, they have phone trees, dates and times, locations and transportation set up. You get one person to call in a certain location and they organize people to come out, like the unions do. In fact he could have had Acorn, the unions and Occupy organizing for him. He could have led occupy instead breaking it up.
Obama dismantled the mass of people who voted for him, he dismantled Acorn, he passed free tade agreements and the GM bailout alienating the Unions, he crushed Occupy. Every time the left developed a mass movement or organization to support liberal ideals, he's crushed it by force, legislation, or passing trade deals.
It started when he didn't invite the single payer advocates to the table, then he said he wanted to trash Social Security and Medicare with chain CPI, and continued through giving the rich tax cuts and passing free trade agreements and fast track. He made sure there is no viable organizational capacity in the liberal movement except for the DNC which is really all about Wall Street.
To claim the movement abandoned Obama is to be blind to what has happened these past 7 years.