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I'm with you there, Kestrel91316!
I'd hoped for an FDR-like firebrand who could rally the people by railing against the "economic royalists" systematically looting our country and destroying the middle class. Instead we got . . . Barack Obama. Cool, calm, collected. Fiscally conservative.
Not a bad man, you understand. Given a Congress that hadn't been thrown into neo-Confederate insurrection and mindless, knee-jerk obstructionism our president could have accomplished so much more. And may very well still do so. (This is to take nothing away from those domestic and foreign policy successes he's already had in the teeth of gail-force winds blowing against him. As Bill Clinton noted: the resistance and criticism President Obama has faced is exponentially worse than the nonsense his administration had to deal with--and that's saying something.)
But ah, god! If only President Obama had listened to Krugman instead of Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner. What's that quote of Einstein's? "A problem cannot be solved by the consciousness that created it."
Crony, gangster-like capitalism must be transformed into a fairer, more egalitarian social-democratic model. You know--like we had back in the 40s and 50s. (Minus the racism, homophobia and misogyny, of course. But this is to confuse sociology with economics. I'm simply noting here that I am well aware that the 40s and the 50s were eras of grinding, relentless pressure to conform to white, hetero-normative, so-called "Judeo-Christian" values.)
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