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. . . oh no. They are the accumulation of the last two years of his policies. This has been building.
Some of this is the loss of the House, too, I'll bet. But that's a smaller part of it than the feelings directly toward Obama. It is frustration at having a near chokehold on government and accomplishing pretty much NOTHING of the big agenda items people favored.
The wars are still going on. One has been massively escalated.
Gitmo is still open for business.
The financial downturn, instead of showing real improvement, is rapidly moving toward eclipsing the Great Depression. The issue is the near complete inability to create good jobs - or any jobs for that matter - in sufficient numbers to overcome the simple growth of the labor pool. Housing, unemployment, rising health care costs, disappearing retirement funds and pensions, all are part of this.
Gay people are right where they were when he came into office. No improvement on that front.
There have too many givewaways to the Haves to state. He's had something for every rich special interest group. Banks, manufacturing outsourcers, health insurance companies, defense contractors. They all got theirs.
The march toward serious reductions in the social safety net is inexorably moving forward. Not since Ronald Reagan has there so many hits to the fundamental fabric of the social safety net (they call them "entitlements" - what a hateful word that contributes to their demonization).
The list can go on.
These are very real, visceral issues to most people. And it is relentless.
All the while, we get nothing in the way of leadership. Really. there has been none that favors the liberals. Any serious movement led by the administration has been to the right.
So yeah, people are really angry.
People on the right are also angry. Which, in some ways, is the real pity. While giving in to right wing demand after right wing demand, they're no more satisfied than they were the day he was inaugurated. Think about that. For all the right wing pandering he's been doing, not even the right wingers want anything to do with him.
Some will say this is all the result of right wing memes and right wing talking points. And maybe some of it seems to track with them. But maybe it is that the right wing talking points are put out there to fit the circumstances and foment greater anger. If that's the case -and I suspect it is, really - then we find ourselves there because of the direction in which we've been taken. Would it not have been better to have the right wing pissed off because some left wing principle was upheld? Ahh. If only.
Yup. This current anger is two years in the making. Ten if you related it - as you should - to the bush years, where much of the current financial disaster has its cause rooted. I dare say no one blames Obama for this mess having been started. People are angry with Obama for following policies and paths long ago proved wrong. By way of example: trickle down is actually just a different way to say "piss on you." It didn't work for St. Ronald and it isn't working now.
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