We're hearing grumbles from he "left" about Barack Obama. He speaks well, but he isn't following up on his rhetoric to combat the corporate takeover of America, the rental of the Congress and the hypnotic effect big money has on the Supreme Court. Obamacare iis nothing but a small step in the right direction, which is a single-payer universal health plan. He hasn't been decisive enough. He's surrendered to the fascist right. In foreign poolicy, hes an extension of Geoge W. Bush. And on and on.
There is an incresing number of progressives who are completey disenchanted with both the Democratic and Republican parties. Some jump ship and become Independents, which at this point means absolutely nothing. Same with the Greens. Many simply don't vote.
I siggest that they quit whining and try being honest.
If a person favors single-payer health care, government-run child care for working folks and a living wage for all, financed by higher taxes on the richest among us, they're admiring the same system many European countries have had for decades. Over there, they have political parties like the Democratic Socialists, Party of European Socialists, the French Socialist Party and the Greens. Here, no politician except perhaps Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, will dare to publicly even say the word except to vilify it. Admitting what you believe has become the political equivalent of "coming out."
What I suggest is that the people who are sick and tired of seeing our country rented out to Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Banks and Big Money develop some balls and speak out. Maybe if enough of you slap a label on yourselves that will scare the corporations enough, we'll see a socialist on the ballot who isn't afraid to call him/herself one and let the voters have a shot for a change. Democracy is not just a two-player game, especially when the two players are on the same side. I'm not saying Obama and Boehner think the same way - I say both are swayed by the same campaign money. I favor an election that can't be auctioned off and we don't have it - and with the present system, we aren't going to get it. The same goes for a fair tax system. Maybe a socialist government won't do better than what we've got, but I find it hard to imagine one that could do worse.