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In reply to the discussion: We can do better than Hillary Clinton. [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)We don't live in Utopia. We don't have unpolluted water, air, and food. We don't have zero obesity problems in this country. We still haven't eradicated cancer or AIDs. We live in America where it's not perfect because nothing is.
And if you really believe that "no one's demanding perfection", you haven't been reading the threads around here. The unrealistic view some demand from this president is just plain stupid and self-defeating, but what's even stupider is their constant harping about every tiny thing he does that they don't approve of, and then they launch into another self-defeating "I'm not voting for another Democrat!" bullshit diatribe that the GOP are happy to exploit.
President Obama has done more progressive work for this country than any other president since FDR, who, may I add, had super-majorities in both chambers of Congress and still didn't get through everything he wanted. Yet the fickle Left believe that he should be another FDR or a LBJ, while President Obama only had a slim majority in the Senate - for 24 days. Yet he still got a lot through even though he had to compromise.
You really want a more Liberal government? Do as the article suggests . . . work from the bottom up cuz it ain't gonna work from the top down. Fight to push for more liberal candidates at the local and state level and work your way up while remembering that the president is NOT a dictator or king, he doesn't occupy the most powerful branch of our government, and that despite the media's reluctance to inform the American public, Congress is, collectively, "the decider".
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