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In reply to the discussion: Your anti-Obama memes are wearing thin. [View all]Th1onein
(8,514 posts)You have no right. And many of us "not real liberals" have been liberal for longer than you have been breathing. And, really, I am tired of hearing this "baby step" bullshit, while whole swathes of our constitutional rights are being taken from us.
I voted for this president. I campaigned for him, and I donated to his campaign. He's MY president, too, and I have the right to criticize him and his policies, just as I have the right to criticize a Repug and his policies. You get the government you deserve. It's called participation, and neither you, nor any other "true-believer-I'm-a-liberal-and-you're-not" jerk is going to tell me to shut up about things that I find wrong with those policies.
This president has done many good things, but he's also been caught furthering Bush's policies of spying on Americans. He went on national TV and lied to the American people about it, and he has allowed Clapper to get away with lying to Congress about it. If you think we're going to let that pass, you are sadly mistaken. He's pushing for the TPP, which will devastate this country's middle class. If you think that we're going to go quietly into that good night, you are wrong again. Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman never talked about baby steps. The history of this country, and the rights of the poor and the downtrodden is rife with the STRUGGLE for equality, the STRUGGLE for rights, the STRUGGLE for empowerment.
YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE. Stop crying about people picking on our president. Get out there and raise some hell, kick up some grass, and do something to stop the encroachment of the corporate police state.