Frontal lobe ping pong: We aren’t the electorate Obama campaigned to govern

[Miss Authoritiva]

Frontal lobe ping pong: We aren’t the electorate Obama campaigned to govern

Grace Nearing at Scriptoids

American voters bullshit American politicians as much as American politicians bullshit American voters.

Nothing about the Fascist Death Panel Snuffcare ShutUpShutUpShutUp Obamacare Debate should surprise anyone who was alive before Jimmy Carter donned a hairshirt and Ronald Reagan (unofficially) went senile. In its simplicity, Snuffcare is reminiscent of the Absolutely Mandatory Compulsory Unisex Public Restroom scuttling of the Equal Rights Amendment, when demure ladies my mother’s age were terrified by the idea of being forced to view whizzing dongers by the dozen just to use the porcelain.

This is America. This is how we deal with complex issues. We go stupid. Really, really stupid. Really fast, too.

More than just the stupidity, it’s the right-on-cue hedging, waffling, and flip-flopping by the citizenry….

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All through the 2008 election we said we absolutely positively for real this time wanted comprehensive healthcare insurance reform. Now we’re going completely mental and having paranoid visions of roving Government Death Panels singling out our elderly parents and our Down syndrome children.

Mark Arenz is spot on: We aren‘t the electorate Obama campaigned to govern.

The people (Obama) met during his two year journey to the White House were imbued with the bravery and heady optimism that inspired previous generations of Americans to strain their backs with the work of making this country better over time, bit by precious bit….

But when confronted with the prospect of actually doing this work, we shrink from the task. We're more likely to believe the pre-debunked verbal offal of someone from K street with the phrase "professional liar" on his business card than the guy we just elected in a landslide….

That old line is so true: A person is smart; people are stupid.

[Buzz Clik]

1. K&R

[old mark]

2. Sadly , the Obama administration is now about as left leaning as

Nelson Rockerfeller. I was very hyped by him and supported him in the primary and GE, but I am now at the stage where I am happy just to have a Democratic President, even if he's not doing what I'd prefer.
The media dragged the government to the center, and now to the moderate Republican area.
I am still a participating member of several activist left political organizations, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's a fucking train.

At least he's not McCain.

mark

[pnorman]

3. I'm not going to try to "out-left" you. That's a stupid game here on DU.

But as someone who had regarded himself as a committed Leftist all my adult life, I'll say this: I voted for him last year. I also supported him with more fervor than I've ever had in my whole adult life. I would dearly have liked to see a Kuchinich or a Sanders in the White House, but let's get real. I voted for a street-smart pragmatist, but one with a HEART! And although puzzled at many developments, he still strikes me as making slow but sure progress. In my Naderite days, I SCORNED that tired old phrase: "Politics is the art of the possible". But not now!

Think back on all the "We've been BETRAYED!" wailing and hand-wringing, from the Inauguration Convocation speaker hoo-haw. Seems a little silly now, doesn't it? And think also about that ~1/4 of this nation that's being whipped into as MURDEROUS frenzy over "Muslim", "Socialist", and "Kenyan birth"!. The people orchestrating that know exactly what they're doing. They FEAR Obama more than anyone else in their memory! Lets not thoughtlessly abet them.

pnorman

[old mark]

5. I agree progress is being made, but it has been so long coming

and so much remains to be done....

Feel free to out-left me at will :)

mark

[pnorman]

7. Yes, it HAS been a "long time coming"!

But the evil began almost 30 years ago with Reagan. And Clinton played an ambiguous role. In some ways, he even abetted it. We elected an expert in constitutional law, who is determined to work within that Constitution. We did NOT elect a self-designated "Unitary President". Is THAT what we now want?

The puppet-masters behind those death-spewing, racist crazies, are DETERMINED to bring Obama down, at whatever cost to the Nation. They may think of themselves as "patriots", who feel that such drastic surgery is necessary, and "the patient will fully recover". Myself, I feel that we have just ONE opportunity to get it right. And if we blow it now, it may be a one-way trip over the cliff. That's why I, a somewhat "lapsed anarchist", caution all to NOT abet those crypto-Nazis!

pnorman

[Mojorabbit]

4. I just don't think this is true

for the most part. The polls still show most people want it. Undue attention is being given to a minority of the populace protesting and the media is also not doing what they should be doing. Most of all, our Dems are not flooding the airwaves framing this issue instead of playing defense.

[Alcibiades]

6. The same folks who are complaining

are the ones who would never ever ever ever vote for Obama anyway. These are the George Wallace people and their children. They are part of the electorate that voted for Obama, but they did not themselves vote for Obama, and most would never ever ever ever vote for any Democrat ever.

The right wing nutjobs are a tiny minority, The difference is that they are getting much free press.