"Appalled by eight lost years during which the rich had gotten richer and the poor poorer, ..., progressives worked the phones, knocked on doors, and gave generously to bring about change they could believe in."
Funny how the author skipped over the fact that, although many of gave generously, worked, etc. for change, by the author's count, we're now up to 11+ lost years where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Truth be told, we're at around 32 straight years of rich getting richer and everyone else either getting poorer or standing still. Bubbba was supposed to fix that, but now that all of the data is in, we can see he was no better than the republican presidents (but a special asterisk for signing the repeal of Glass-Steagal!!) before him or since.
It's about time people recognize that Obama hasn't put the slightest dent in the "rich getting richer at everyone else's expense" trajectory AT ALL. And don't forget that Dem senators voted in huge numbers to appoint Scalia and the rest of the activists on the court that the author appropriately derides.
The system is the problem. And Obama decided to embrace the system. People are free to judge if he's tried to use that system for good or not. But the bottom line is that the system is 100% unchanged since his arrival.
And the impacts of his inability to change it continue to be extremely harsh.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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