Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street in Order to Save Main Street to Just Saving Wall Street

I knew even before he won the election that Obama was possibly right of center and the accusations of his being "socialist" were certainly false.



Oh, I'm not happy. I wish he would save MY life and enact single payer health care, for which we are already paying more than what would cover us all well (http://www.hr676.org/ .)



But Obama is what we make him. The progressive half of the country has not had the back of those who try to stand up to the radical right machine running this country since c. 1980.



We do not have massive marching in the streets when fellow citizens face death due to misguided government policies ( http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget28-2009may28,0,1322149.story ), when youth are killed in war held in the wrong country, etc.



Until we PERSONALLY are affected, for fear of losing what little we are clinging to-- whether that be the health insurance from which we haven't (yet) been dropped ( http://www.care2.com/causes/health-policy/blog/health-insurance-ive-got-mine/ ) , or our children's education which hasn't (yet) been destroyed by budget cuts -- we do butkis until we're hit.



We are divided from those for whom the bell has already tolled... divided, and therefore conquered.



And we get the economy http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12699486/paul_krugman_on_the_great_wealth_transfer/ ) , and government we PERMIT to rule over us.
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