nearing tide

If President Obama wanted a mobilized base this year and in 2012, he should have worked on real progressive change, rather than the watered-down “reform” we’ve seen for Wall Street and the health care system. His administration has been a crushing disappointment to the people who voted for him in 2008.

Our political parties are two sides of the same coin. There can not be real change inside the two-party system, and disenchanted voters are beginning to realize this.

Obama’s comments, labeling progressives as ungrateful and “immature” because people aren’t dancing in the streets over his phony reforms belie his administration’s fundamental underestimation of the Peoples’ intelligence. The People know that the man we voted for turned out to be another phantom politician who has shed any sign of the progressivism he campaigned on.

Obama should never have listened to people like Rahm Emmanuel- the man who called progressives “retards.” He should have kept the promises he made, and he should never have tried to pull the wool over our collective eyes.

Calls to vote for independent candidates are right; but certainly not the only step that needs to be taken. Who on earth—Democrat, Republican, or independent—has the moral fortitude required to stand up against the deluge of lobbyist money pouring into Washington?

In American politics, metaphors are taking over in the place of reality. The old adage that “money talks” has turned into “corporations are people” in the eyes of our corrupted Supreme Court. We are living through an era where the oligarchy is not even made up of living, breathing people anymore- but rather the cold hard stone of a Goldman Sachs building.

In other words, the problems our country is facing are so huge, and so entrenched, that our current system of government simply can not face them and win. Systematic change was mandated. Obama vowed to make the needed changes. He has broken these promises, and the People see through it. If Mr. Obama is searching for a mobilized, engaged base- don’t look to the progressives in this country. We’re through with his lies. If it’s “immature” to not trust a wolf in sheep’s clothing, then so be it.