Mourning the Silence of True Liberalism

True, but there was a tremendous amount of time and money invested by liberals in Obama's election. People who didn't have much of anything were donating both of those things to the campaign.



I believe it was done because we want that leader who would take it to the entrenched powers. Someone to lead the charge - just as he did in the 2008 campaign. But then we get bait and switch starting in early 2009 when wall street was re-appoint­ed to run the economy.



Then we hear from the cheerleade­rs that same word (pragmatis­m) is what we need to swallow because pragmatism dictates that you have to compromise behind closed doors on every initiative because, otherwise, you can't pass legislatio­n. That acceptance and active campaignin­g for weak policy and weak politics takes much effort. And it has an effect on folks speaking out, too.



While it is certainly true that "the reasonable people have underestim­­ated the less reasonable­," I think I'm seeing that there are plenty of less reasonable liberals in our midst. In their unreasoned desperatio­n, Obama is a great leader.
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