Reply #12: Completely agree [View All]

[dbmk]

As a european I am sort of a bystander.

But based on reading Audacity of Hope, the last years primaries and whatever interviews, tv or paper, he has done, I am pretty certain that the man is way more liberal than he presents and than many here apparently thinks he is.

But he also acknowledges that you get nowhere in todays US politics pushing those views hard. So he advocates the middle ground to get some actual movement and solution on issues. So he might not govern from the word go in progressive utopian style. Don't be surprised to see compromise after compromise to begin with. But it will all be done to ensure the train starts moving - and in the right direction.

If he sees a real chance to get/create public backing for a progressive issue - I am pretty sure you would be hard pressed to find a topic where he would not deliver because of his personal beliefs.

The trick is to get things moving in the right direction, and seed and manage the publics opinion of it to ensure the next administration will not undo it. The current administration has proven that the cost of doing that might be rather costly in the end.