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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 10:25 AM
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42. Here's the problem, what's good for Obama is disastrous for the Democratic party.
His plan of triangulation works - for him. It worked for Bill Clinton but it did not work for the country as a whole or for the Democratic party. As the political leader of a supposedly liberal organization moves right, so does the rest of the nation and the other political party.

If the leader of the party is a con (for conservatives but they aren't conservatives as traditionally defined, so I call them cons), then being a con must be the absolutist rightest thing to be. Otherwise, the leader would be more liberal, like the organization he leads.

So, when our supposedly liberal leader moves right, the nation, voters and RepubliCONS move right (even more!). It will get him reelected because now Cons are voting for him and a few remaining Democratic loyalists (because he just moved the center to the right where all those RepubliCONS are). It wont be a landslide (there just ain't no enthusiasm). And the Congress will turn right into a RepubliCON bastion as it did when Clinton triangulated.

The real problem is that turning right is the most dangerous thing he can do for the nation. As we stand on the edge of a collapse into fascism, depression and 3rd world status, turning right will only push over the edge.

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