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In reply to the discussion: So, protest from "his base" can strengthen Obama's hand, eh? [View all]dotymed
(5,610 posts)No-one will believe them. Candidate Obama and President Obama are entirely different personalities. Candidate Obama told us what we wanted to hear. President Obama has proven that the d&r parties are just two arms of the PTB.
Candidate Obama used (probably the last) of the proven "peoples party" goodwill to get re-elected in another election where Americans were forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
It is now totally transparent, for anyone willing to look, that our two "viable" parties are just different arms of the same oligarchs.
If any change is to be made that will benefit the 99% it will not come from either current party. Unless we can, beyond a doubt, recapture the spirit and deeds of the original Democratic party, we will have to rely on another name for that party. Are Americans progressive enough to get behind a Democratic Socialist party? Our most pro-people Senator IS a Democratic Socialist (Bernie Sanders) who uses the moniker of Independent party (for reasons that I understand). We may have to do the same to field FDR Democratic politicians in order to make them "viable" and acceptable to the average voter.
Whatever it takes, I will not vote for another dlc candidate who wants to ride his/her way into politics by misrepresenting the name of great Democrats in order to make themselves appealing to average voters. Obama has probably ruined that possibility anyway...