Barack Obama
In reply to the discussion: Dear God... Our President needs us Now. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)There are many things that are New Deal-ish that have saved lives that they long to destroy for ideological purity. The call it the cost of change, as people suffer and die.
Those affected are just collateral damage to meet their simplistic ideal which claim a faux individualism that never happened except in the mind of Ayn Rand. Yes, they are like that.
The right have the same technique. Those of us who are protecting the living in the middle, those who support unions and public workers and school teachers and other services, are beset from both sides. We're sneered at and called centists and sell-outs from the left, and statist and nanny staters from the right. But we don't care what it's called if it saves people.
Flesh and blood people, not theoretical ones that they don't know or care about, and whose lives or death doesn't really affect their lives. On the left they used to be called radical chic, pushing to the extreme the politics of the day to elicit a violent response for a thrill. And on the right, they play fundamentalist mental masturbation games. Same game, though.
It's tough to be abused from both sides. This is what Obama is dealing with, so I love him.