Populism and today's SCOTUS ruling

[ProSense]

Today's SCOTUS ruling should be a sobering reminder to anyone who claims they oppose corporate influence in politics and Wall Street greed yet continue to support the RW.

A majority of Obama voters who switched to Brown said that "Democratic policies were doing more to help Wall Street than Main Street."

A full 95 percent said the economy was important or very important when it came to deciding their vote.

In a somewhat paradoxical finding, a plurality of voters who switched to the Republican -- 37 percent -- said that Democrats were not being "hard enough" in challenging Republican policies.

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Seriously, what is the disconnect?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. You're back on the right track...

[Jennicut]

2. They want Obama to step up. And in a two party system there is little

way to express disappointment in the President besides voting for the other candidate or staying home. And people are naive and are not political junkies like us. They have no idea the damage done in allowing Rethugs to return to power. The polling data actually suggests Obama has an opening here, but he needs to deliver real reforms to Wall St.

[rockymountaindem]

3. The disconnect is only the two party system

If you want to protest the way one party is going, you have to vote against the other one. So for the unfortunates who made the decision to support a shift to the left by voting for a right wing candidate, I say hate the game, not the player. One might argue that by voting for Coakley, the Democratic establishment would continue thinking they can get away with anything.

I'm not happy with the outcome, but that's probably the logic, sadly.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Guess that points to the "two party" system being a problem in itself.

Well..no problem. Soon enough we will have only one party..the Corporate Party.

[ProSense]

9. It's sad, but it's not

logic. It's flawed thinking.

[Phx_Dem]

4. Mass voters dig corporate influence because they just gave the GOP one

more fillibuster vote on future left-leaning Supreme Court nominees, thereby erasing our 60 vote fillibuster-proof majority.

Woo Hoo! Give us more wingnut justices like JOHN ROBERTS!!

:puke:

[Cleita]

6. Welcome to the new Dark Ages in America.

You have no idea how bad this is going to be.

[dgibby]

7. Yes, I do,

and I've been thinking all day that I'm glad I'm over 60, so won't have to live the majority of my life in this mess. I just feel really badly about my nieces and nephews and their families. Sad, very, very sad.

[Cleita]

8. I'm turning seventy next month and never thought I

would be hoping my twilight would be coming sooner rather than later.

[Grand Taurean]

10. Bad times for we young people.