America: Night of the Living Dead

[NorthCarolina]

OpEdNews: Bruce Luske

The mid-term elections ended recently with the terminally spineless Democrats and Invertebrate-in-Chief President getting a well-deserved drubbing. The audacity of hope? Nope! Rather, endless white flagged surrender on almost every issue crucial to the wellbeing and survival of the middle class and the poor: The public option in healthcare? Surrender. Rigorous Wall street regulation? Surrender. Workers right to organize unions in workplaces? Surrender. Outsourcing middle class jobs? Surrender. Renegotiation of mortgages to forestall foreclosures? Surrender. Major climate legislation? Surrender. And now it looks like the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy will be extended--the worst surrender of all.

Obama's hopelessly compromised presidency has two intimately intertwined root causes: First, upon his election he failed to launch an investigation of the Bush White House for its shredding of the Constitution with torture, imprisonment without due process, spying on citizens, conducting an illegal and immoral war under false pretenses--and for a warehouse full of other deceptions and violations of American and international law. Second, he failed to frame today's Republican Party as the utterly destructive un-American force it has become through its total subservience to the corporations and the super rich, deceptively framed as the "free market," in tandem with its brilliantly Machiavellian use of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and other fear-mongering wedge issues meant to dupe people into opposing their own economic interests.

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Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Night-of-the-Livi-by-Bruce-Luske-101121-355.html

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I am beginning to agree with this writers conclusion that the only way forward may be THROUGH the creation of a "Truly liberal third party movement that honestly and totally serves the common good."

[Nite Owl]

1. This is the part that I see happening

"What hurts me most as a college teacher is that Obama's feckless behavior has destroyed the hope he inspired in America's youth during his campaign. Most of my students, so awakened and energized in 2008, have turned away in disgust from politics and civic engagement."
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Night-of-the-L...

I see it in my sons and their friends. It is so sad, we lost a whole generation! From hope to cynicism and fear of the future. I don't think I can forgive him for that. And the author is correct in that he may be judged as worse than Bush, in Bush we knew what we had but Obama took away all the hope that things could be righted, and it started immediately after the election. That says a lot right there.

[kenfrequed]

2. There was a failure of message

The blue dogs and a few of Obama's advisors and staff deserve their share of the blame. The Blue Dog senate caucus was put together by Evan Bayh a month prior to Obama's inaugeration. Their stated goal was to keep the Democratic party from swinging to the left and passing progressive legislation. They coveted their swing vote status that allowed them to wring money and favors out of the system. These are the same people that screwed us on every issue on the floor and worked hard off the floor to complicate and twist messaging to make loud statements of Democratic intent impossible and those few successes unlaudible.

Kowtowing to these BCBS dogs was one of the reasons we could not simply accuse the Republicans often and always as to their being the most obstructionist political minority in American history.

[ixion]

3. A "Truly liberal third party movement that honestly and totally serves the common good."

would be very nice, indeed. Serving the Common Good: Now there's a novel thought. :woohoo:

[NorthCarolina]

4. I couldn't agree more. nt

[Hawkowl]

5. Invertebrate-in-Chief

I'm going to start using that :(

[Citizen Worker]

6. Excuse me, but if this administration has not convinced voters that the two political parties are

wholly owned subsidiaries of Global Oligarchy, Inc., there really isn't any hope. And a third party? How about building a second political party and we can move on from there.

[Skittles]

7. and there are some DUers....

squealing this is the "best president ever"......gawd save us all :o