The corporate Democrats still control the House, the Senate and the White House. A majority of the country opposes extending tax cuts for the rich, but President Obama has chosen to move to the right again and then lecture his liberal base which he has contempt for. And he’s abandoning net neutrality.
The Republican will take the majority in the House, but the corporate Democrats still control the Senate and the White House. ‘So why are the corporate Democrats going to move to the right?’, because they are owned by the same corporate interests as the Republicans. In fact, Obama got more corporate money than McCain-Palin or Bush-Cheney.
I know that many people were excited about candidate Barrack Obama because he gave good speeches that sounded progressive. But that was all just overheated rhetoric. Many of us predicted that progressives that were energized by his excellent PR campaign would become greatly disappointed.
This wasn’t just because a racist backlash was predictable for the first black President. It was because his record has always been one of capitulation to the corporate agenda. Even Obama’s famous anti-Iraq war speech made clear he didn’t oppose war. He just wanted the right war at the right time.
Those who took a deeper look into is his record knew that he always advocated keeping a force of 50,000 troops in Iraq and all the private mercenaries like Blackwater. He has kept some of his promises, like escalating the war in Afghanistan-what he believes is the right war at the right time-and increasing the bloated Pentagon budget.
Obama and his corporate Democrats have demonstrated that they can’t deliver a progressive agenda when they are in control of government with large majorities. The only question now is: do his supporters have a breaking point or will they vote for him no matter how much he serves the corporations and shows contempt for liberals and progressives that believed in his hype?
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