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In reply to the discussion: Waking From My Moral Coma [View all]AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Obama campaigned with a thin resume. But when Senators and Representatives with proven track records of being liberals and progressives endorsed Obama, I genuinely was taken in. I genuinely thought that if he went too far afield, Senator Durbin and others would rein him in.
The system was supposed to work with checks-and-balances. Now we've got a surveillance system as bad or worse than what they had in Russia and East Germany, un-prosecuted happy war criminals, hundreds of billions or more transferred to the banksters, three more job-shifting "free-trade" agreements signed, a coordinated effort at the highest levels to suppress free speech at Occupy Wall St protests with unnecessary and excessive police violence, ...
You may be right that the only possibility of changing things is to focus on Congress. But I tend to believe that efforts have to be made at even a more local level. If the mayors and other local politicians with big D's after their names won't take an active interest, IMO, they should be rotated out.