New Yorker: "A Clear Violation of Obama's Promise"

[merrily]

228. Thank you.

I always appreciate your posts as well.

If campaign promises can be broken with no consequence, does it really matter what is a campaign issue?

It's not as though this was a minor promise. Nor was strong public option. Nor was most transparent administration ever. Nor was "Just elect me and I'll fix my FISA vote." And so on.

Thing is, I have heard Democratic strategists/pundits and others on TV say flat out, "The left has nowhere else to go." This is usually in response to a question about whether the Dem base can accept something Obama or Congress are doing.

Inasmuch as they believe that--and/or make us believe it--the only upside for them is in courting the Indies and the Republicans. (Remember, in 2008, the term "Obamicans," and converts like Julie Eisenhower?)

That is who they've been after since at least triangulator in chief Clinton/Morris. And, oh look, those policies just happen to fit in with what big money wants from government, too.

And then, there's the Carroll Quigley factor. Bubba said that Quigley, whose class Clinton took, was one of his huge influences, right up there with JFK. And Quigley believes that what financial markets need most of all is stability. Hence, the less change there is from one President to another, the better Wall Street likes it.

So, in the above scenario, liberals are not going anywhere, not Republicans or Indies, whose votes Democrats need, and not good for Wall Street, whose money Democrats need and whose success both of the largest parties need. (The investor class has indeed benefited since Obama. Working class, not so much.)

What do you think the outcome of sum of things in the prior paragraph is likeliest to be?


I am going to add another thought that is even more controversial:

After 1929, the rich feared a revolution; and we got the New Deal. In the 1960s, everyone feared an uprising; and we got not only the Civil Rights Act, which MLK was preaching about, but also the War on Poverty, which MLK was also preaching about. The Great Society-head start, Medicare and more.

MLK had also begun preaching about war and LBJ did run on peace, but never delivered.

NSA, Homeland Security, etc. Federal, state and local governments are pretty much ready for anything--and willing. Look what happened to peaceful demonstrators.

Sorry for ranting, but please think about it.