Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: The Power of the SCOTUS Part VI - Roberts rules disorder
He's a Cold War Liberal, where the part of the old Communist Bloc is now being played by radical fundamentalism. But his heart is DLC and the transition to Hillary's more overt corporatism would be smooth.
It's certainly preferable as compared with the GOP, which for thirty years has been metastasizing into a National Front fascist junta. Obama's big achievement has been keeping the White Walkers at bay. That's vital for preserving us as a democracy, but thus far he hasn't been able to make meaningful reforms to the Reaganite economics that has destroyed the middle class since the 80s.
The US is missing a party. We have a far right and a center party, and are missing a far left party. I wouldn't always vote for the far left party if it existed, but we need it as a counterweight to the radical right. That was the biggest lesson of the Great Recession.
He's a Cold War Liberal, where the part of the old Communist Bloc is now being played by radical fundamentalism. But his heart is DLC and the transition to Hillary's more overt corporatism would be smooth.
It's certainly preferable as compared with the GOP, which for thirty years has been metastasizing into a National Front fascist junta. Obama's big achievement has been keeping the White Walkers at bay. That's vital for preserving us as a democracy, but thus far he hasn't been able to make meaningful reforms to the Reaganite economics that has destroyed the middle class since the 80s.
The US is missing a party. We have a far right and a center party, and are missing a far left party. I wouldn't always vote for the far left party if it existed, but we need it as a counterweight to the radical right. That was the biggest lesson of the Great Recession.
I wrote "and in bringing down the costs of healthcare which were expected to skyrocket." - as in costs are growing much slower than expected before the ACA came into effect (according to CBO estimates).
Go back to 2004 and tell me that you expected gay marriage to be legal, upper income tax payers to have their rate put back at Clinton era levels plus an additional surcharge for the ACA, a 50 state expansion of federal health care, and a new consumer board keeping tabs on the entire financial industry, not just banks or securities but even recently the credit agencies, and people would have said you were nuts. I'd also point out for Keps sake that the CIA torture report NEVER gets released under a GOP Congress.
