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In reply to the discussion: I Have a Pledge to Make. Who Will Join Me? [View all]scentopine
(1,950 posts)is less likely to complain about the corporate take over of Washington and the corporate objectives of the new dem party. So the "independent" aka republican voter has become Obama's vital core constituency. Obama and Romney are trying to out republican each other.
That's why conservadems here are telling the liberals to shut the fuck up when Obama de-criminalizes torture or stuffs the exec office and cabinet with CEO and MBA douchebags.
Republicans move more and more to right, democrats move more and more right to meet them in the "center". They see the "independent" as easy money. So, Obama is trying very hard to please right wingers.
Fuck that shit. Liberals need to form their own party and run ballots or democrats need to start representing us.
If you don't give a damn whether Obama gives our taxes to CEOs as bonus money for outsourcing jobs to Asia, or uses drones to continue to slaughter civilians - then you are perfect for new corporate model dem party. War spending is high, civil liberties are low - a centrist conservadem is solidly behind this shit. For these right wingers, there's Obama.
For the other million or so, we have taxation without representation. This disparity of representation is growing and cannot stand forever.