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We got our man in office, he paid us great lip service, and we propelled him into the highest office in the land. Going on three years and either two things are occurring, he never intended to do much of what he said, or, and it's what I used to mostly believe, the complete obstruction of the right and corporate power play politics have completely road blocked his attempts at any meaningful progress.
At what point do we call him out? Any of our elected Democratic leaders? When they see us agitated and pissed they make statements "We are on your side" "We feel your pain" "We stand with you" then go completely right back to advocating and even advancing ideas and policies against our interests and those very ideals that moved us to vote and put them in office.
At which point is it all just lip service, self preservation, keeping their job, toeing the line, doing the dance that will see them another term, because 1) They've got us, we won't vote for anyone else 2) Noone would dare run against them 3) They can just move their own goals posts and scoop up the most votes to stay ahead i.e. (moving to the center).
I have to wonder, and for myself too, am I, are we so afraid of losing that we can't win? That this is the last time a Democrat will ever be president, and this plays out over and over again, for our representatives and senators.
There are some good articles attempting to explain the tea party victories of 2010, most claim, and which I happen to believe the most is that in bad economic times voters tend to take things out against the party in power, it's preictable, but that wasn't all of it either, they went where they had'nt been going before, Rand Paul, he'pretty extreme, the got him in, they voted vastly against their own incumbents in primaries. Can we emulate that? Do we have the courage to vote on our convictions even if that means losing, even losing the highest office?
Are we just pigeons?
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