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Showing Original Post only (View all)How can we get a progressive presidential candidate at the top of Democratic ticket in 2016? [View all]
Obama has been good on a few issues, but for the most part, when Wall Street says, jump, Obama says how high, particularly on issues where he couldn't blame GOP coercion, like the repetitive standardized testing to prove public schools are failing as an excuse to replace them with for profit charter schools that get taxpayer money but do worse more often than better for students.
Or foreign policy that mostly differs from Bush in style rather than substance.
Or not prosecuting any of the big fish on Wall Street who broke the world economy with intentional fraud.
Or picking the same guys who deregulated banks to run his economic policy,
and so on.
Any Democrat will be better than the GOP, but the problem is, the leaders of the Democratic Party try to keep as little daylight as possible between them and Republicans on a host of issues, especially when someone is greasing their palm to do so.
How can we pull the party back toward FDR and away from Rubin/Summers?