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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges: "In this year’s presidential election I will vote for a third-party candidate" [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)Than the people he appointed. I'm sorry, I know they have their apologists and people make the "Oh well they knew the system so it could be changed from within" or whatever excuse they gave.
But at every point he's chosen either the epitome of insiders, or people whose track record and everything else indicates they would enforce the status quo.
I'm not saying nothing has changed in that no laws have been passed or anything of that nature.
I'm saying the way things are done. The culture of money and insider status and all of that. It was a lot of pretty words but either he had no intention of changing it at all, or he did but just gave up almost immediately.
If anything, through his relentless placement of "bipartisanship" above everything else, he succeeded only in shifting the acceptable terms of debate rightward. I just don't believe he's stupid at all, so he had to have known exactly how reaching out to Republicans was going to work out. Anyone who has paid attention at all to politics in any way shape or form had to have known this. So by allowing it to come to pass as it did despite every possible warning every step of the way, we've now moved so far right as a country that I'm afraid there's no hope to turn back.