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In reply to the discussion: A question for HRC supporters ... [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... of Obama over issues like the TPP, drone strikes, domestic spying, etc.
If we criticize him over legitimate issues that he's sacrificing Democratic Party values in doing so, we get lumped in with the Republican bashers calling him a socialist and fascist in the same stupid poster they hold at their rallies.
It's hard to then have those criticisms heard, because they get dismissed along with the real crap of bashing that legitimately gets dismissed.
Republicans have succeeded in that strategy of obscuring the corporatist mission of screwing over the rest of us with corporatist agendas that they've gotten Obama to support, but which gets defended by some who don't look at the details because they are just trying to "protect the president" from Republican crap.
Not sure why Obama is going down these paths that should be criticized, but aren't sufficiently, but I'm concerned that this kind of "Third Way" agenda that he's working on will also be done by the next president, unless we make sure we nominate someone with true populist loyalties, and not professed ones that aren't truly held. Because we'll see a repeat of this sort of thing happening in a future administration as well, when anyone legitimately trying to criticize Hillary Clinton as president will be lumped together with Rush Limbaugh crazies holding "Hillary is a feminazi" signs then.