Look folks,
I've been posting at Dkos since 2004. Not day 1 but not yesterday either.
I joined up because i recognized W. for the clear and present danger he was to the country.
I saw him as evidence and instrument of our National decline. From Iraq to Katrina and every policy space in between, I saw in W. a supercharged example of the Corporate/Right Wing fascist nexus that truly calls the shots in this "Democratic" country.
OK?
With me so far?
Now, here's the kicker...
Obama's admin to date represents a continuation of the same fascist policies that have brought this country to its knees and YOU LOVE HIM. And yes, I said "Fascist".
Here is the definition again...from the horses mouth....
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
Think about it. How is he doing so far?.....The WORDS have been great. How are the ACTIONS??
1st Obama put Goldman Sachs alums, Geithner and Summers on his short list for his financial team (Shades of Hank Paulsen, also a Goldman Sachs bag man).
(THIS alone kept me from voting for Obama. That was a huge "uh oh" moment for me similar to when W. said in his 1st campaign, "I trust the Amerikan people"{which is what a used car salesman tells you right before selling you a vintage Aztek, "I trust YOU"}
On Health Care (Obama's healthcare "plan" isn't a plan at all. Much like his economic recovery plan, it exists to funnel more money to Wall St.), CorpoRat reform, Banking Regulations (why hasn't Glass Steagall been re-instated? why hasn't the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act" been rolled back? Why are the Financials so pleased with O's proposals?) The Economy (O is pissing away our grandkids Trillion$ on parasitic Dracula banks)
Torture, Gitmo, Domestic Spying, Gay Rights, Iraq (military industrial complex boondoggle #1 rolling into....)
Afghanistan (military industrial complex boondoggle #2) Obama has shown himself to be a Company man, bought and paid for while selling out the very people who keep his picture framed in living rooms across the country.
The only debate among Democrats seems to be how fast and how deeply to run up the national debt, not whether "our man" in D.C. is governing like a more articulate version of a center right REPUBLICAN!.
Meanwhile, at Dkos the "party", of party unity (aka cheap Tribalism) continues.
A typical "diary" now goes something like:
"Obama smacks down Cheney!!!"
"Cheney....Is that like a disease?"
"Heh."
"Good one"
"I liked it"
"pie"
"heh"
"Cheney pie"
"I'm hungry, heh." etc, etc, etc
Threads are 95% comprised of partisan drivel from generation Tat.
(in fact, (lol) there is a diary up on the Rec list today called "Getting Smacked down by the POTUS"
With this panting gem...""If any bill arrives from Congress that is not controlling costs, that's not a bill I can sign." I'm thinking that's about as close as he'll (O) come to SAYING he won't sign a bill without a public option. This breathless piece of credulity is followed by comments like,
"John McCain and Lindsey Graham
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
"I was thinking more like
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dumber"
"I like where he said, "Cuz I'm the decider. Heh."
Oh wait, wrong President."
The discourse at Dkos doesn't even reach the pseudo intellectual depths of classic RedState these days. It's just partisan bullshitting.
Aside from the few perceptive ones who inexplicably frequent this cliquey hell hole, I leave you with this.......
You folks have been PUNKED into believing in partisan fairy tales of the "big bad party of big business and Jesus" (them) and the "human, kind, sensitive, party of truth and the "little peeeeple" (You).
Trouble is, this aint yer great great great great grandad's republic anymore. This is Oligarchy. This is Kleptocracy. This is Nosferatu. And the folks who patronize this "post victory" version of Dkos have as much to answer for as the reddest RedStater.
So get busy and get this diary banned as fast as you can lil Dembots! Post recipes below, upload cat pictures, use the word "heh" alot and show the others how droll, how obedient you are!
They're all Dkos TRADITIONS after all and it's such a pure world here.
The 2nd great American depression will begin in earnest this Fall based largely on Obama/Bernankes dumbshit econ policies.
At this point I'm content to let reality deprogram THIS "reality based" community.