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In reply to the discussion: I am no longer a Democrat. [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)I disagree that Obama has taken the directions that he has taken because he was in a shaky spot.
And midterms of 2010 were a symptom of the problem, IMO. Once Democrats joined corporatists, people stopped seeing the differences for which they hope when they throw one part out. Democrats got huge victories (by post-1970 standards) in 2006 and 2008, but the people did not see relief.
Retaking the House is not going to do much, if anything. We are not going to see again the kind of Senate majorities we had when we had the South. And we have a President who described his policies as those of a moderate Republican from the 1980s. Without a change to the filibuster rule, or sixty liberal senators, we're screwed. And we are not going to see sixty liberal senators for a long time, if ever.
But, I can see that we view the causes and results of various events very differently, so I don't foresee much usefulness to discussion.