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In reply to the discussion: What the hell is Barack Obama's presidency for? [View all]pragmatic_dem
(410 posts)within the present day piece of shit TPP agreement and, well, spying.
These are not the big bold initiatives we expected regardless of any other consideration.
And they are as big and bold as any in history.
I'll leave health care off the table, but if he held back because of racial appearances as you put it, that is simply disingenuous, and not a politically appropriate compromise. However, I don't believe that is relevant here and I give him credit for not stooping in this regard.
Rather, I see him following a textbook 3rd way path set out before him by old DNC - corporations are at heart of any social policy solution, and military policy follows neo-con playbook.
Hence corporate designed health care + TPP + Monsanto Act and aggressive strategy of spying on citizens via patriot act.
I'm worried that Democrats are too wrapped up with fringe issues - of course gay marriage is important, but if you can't earn enough to raise a family within that marriage, then what?
In other words, we don't seem to be able to focus on more than one issue at a time.
I am hoping gay rights advocates would join fight for economic justice as vigorously as fight for marriage rights once they experience total costs of raising kids - food, medical, school, clothes, etc on an adjusted median wage unchanged for decades.
Time will tell.