Reply #497: that is true - but in a country where 46% of the populace think Obama is too liberal

[Douglas Carpenter]

in a country where the only viable alternative to Obama-style Democrats seriously believe that Obama and those who share his views are socialist-extremist and apparently now consider Newt Gingrich too liberal - what on earth do we do?

The sad and unfortunate reality is that the issue is not Obama or Clinton or anyone else who has a snowballs chance in hell of becoming major players on the political stage - much less governing. There is no hope that this new reality is going to result in some kind of progressive popular uprising. The only plausible popular uprising will be a reactionary uprising lead by forces that really do consider New Gingrich way, way too left-wing. The reality is that capital power is now unrestrained to unparalleled levels - they have very successfully redefined the acceptable boundaries of serious debate - and we are only at their mercy and even worse - there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about it.