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In reply to the discussion: Party Loyalty [View all]H2O Man
(73,528 posts)I invested a lot of time and resources in 2008, campaigning for Obama. I'm glad that I did -- it was a heck of an experience. I wasn't happy when his administration began to look much like a Clinton administration. Still, there are things that I've liked about President Obama, and I campaigned for him again four years later.
The difference between 2012 and '08 was that I couldn't ask my friends and associates from the Democratic Left to vote for him again. I'm sure that some did, and some didn't. But his first term had not brought about enough solid change; the President was too willing to try to work with the republicans, while largely ignoring the left.
Our government became a corporate state shortly after WW2, by the way. In 1981, it became a corporation. That needs to be changed .....at the very least, it should be a not-for-profit. But that will take a lot of work -- the type the left-wing of the Democratic Party alone advocates, at present.