Reply #21: I can't agree more, TwixVoy. Obama would have to make some

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serious and surprising reversals, and be able to demonstrate them nightly on TV, for anyone to have any hope that things were really changing. As many before me have said, a Pub president with majorities like Obama has would have rammed any old program they wanted down the throats of the Dems and the American public -- that's exactly what happened with that moron Bush. What does this tell us? It tells us that our government is not really our government -- it's the pretty face of the real government, which consists of the oligarchs/corporations.

Now, this view has some distressing problems. What use is it to keep electing Dems, if they are secretly already in the corp camp or are easily seduced or threatened to join? Lieberman should have gotten the back of Obama's hand -- not an olive branch. Geithner/Bernanke/Summers should have been nowhere near the Obama admin. Both wars should have been winding down right about now. Just getting rid of the wars would have boosted Obama into the stratosphere -- even the dumbest pub knows in the back of his mind that they were stupid and that they are eating up resources needed here at home in our economic struggle. Howard Dean should occupy a position of honor and power in DC, but he has been sidelined. People like Grayson are allowed to hang around to bolster the impression that there is a real debate, but if he got too powerful he'd be Wellstoned.

As far as the healthcare bill: why are we screwing around with that when we have so many other immediate improvements that, once done, would give Obama a near-universal approval rating that would make a Medicare-for-all bill so much easier to pass? Personally, I think the healthcare debate is a calculated distraction from things that need to be done immediately for the immediate economic survival of the nation.

All of this is simple and easy to understand and view. And people are seeing it and are angry. This will show up in the polls -- would we be better off voting Dem no matter what? Only in the short run. In the long run, we need two real parties and/or a real shakeup that reorders the whole country. Let's stop allowing the Pubs to do the shaking up with their nutty idiots like Palin.