Reply #4: Yes, and our administration is enabling this.

[ThomCat]

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The republican politicians worship the crony capitalism and uber-wealthy, but mostly fail to implement the proposals to give them what they want because we all know not to trust them.

Democratic politicians, on the other hand, area also in favor of crony capitalism and the uber wealthy, but quietly, while publicly claiming to be against that shit. Democratic politicians publicly claim to be on the side of protecting the rights of consumers. So politicians like Obama have been able to sneak past the give-a-ways to the uber-rich that the republicans fail to achieve. It is because people don't know it's coming, so they aren't as wary, and aren't constantly unified, shouting "NO" the way they would be with a Republican administration.

I wish we had a real democrat in office, and a real democratic administration that really cares about people's rights, and didn't regularly side with corporations. :(

Or if Obama, as he claims, really is a liberal (just a fucking useless, stupid, cowardly one) I wish he wasn't a fucking damned horrible negotiator who insist on appointing others are conservative corporatists, and many others who are out-right neocons in the name of bipartisanship. You don't achieve liberal success by constantly moving to the right, or by surrounding yourself with right-wing staff, advisers, and appointees.

But I really don't believe this B.S. about him being a failed liberal. He's a successful Conservative tool giving the corporations whatever they want by deliberately failing in every confrontation with them. And by failing, he is succeeding in becoming one of the worst presidents ever.

He is already certifiably worse that Bush in FOIA completions and transparency.

He is already certifiably worse than bush in civil rights. Bush never claimed the right to assassinate citizens. Bush never tortured a US Citizen as far as we know, like the Obama administration is doing now. Bush never rounded up antiwar activists and held them in jail without charges indefinitely. He has expanded the ability to spy on citizens beyond what Bush had in place. He has turned the TSA into something more invasive than it ever was under Bush.

I wonder in how many more areas he will end up being provably worse than Bush. And how fucked up is that, that we can even consider that for a so-called democratic president? :(