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Almost everything you said I agree with. All but unrealistic expectations. Obama was not a fighter. If he wielded the power of his office like FDR or almost any republican we wouldn't be having this conversation about health care. In retrospect I don't believe for a second that he had any intention of doing much of anything. Just empty campaign lies.
Republicans can do that because they've been largely unified. If a Democrat tried that others in their own party with different agendas would sell them out immediately. Solidarity goes a long long way. And while I hate all the empty campaign lies. You cannot deny that they still work. Trump has made good on it twice now. Not fulfilling his promises that is. But promising the world and delivering nothing. All because Republicans generally have solidarity
FDR beat opposition in his own party by playing dirty and having an uncompromising will to do things that were unpopular in his own party as there were gilded lapdogs then just as now. He forced the opposition into bending to what was best for the people. He build the most prosperous economy that worked for the people the US has ever seen. He did so in spite of the opposition inside his own party.
The majority of the current dems have one agenda, line their pockets with corporate cash and get a job as a lobbyist if/when the have to fall on the sacrificial sword and kill popular legislation. Its about greed and greed has no party affiliation.
Your damn Skippy about the campaign lies working. This is why I don't compromise when they try to feed me the shit they/anyone shovel about unrealistic expectations. God damn right I expected more and I'm still pissed we as citizenry didn't stand up and demand what we deserve. It is also why I unregistered as a democrat. I know better than to think they represent me.
Also you can't really call Trump a republican. He's a con artist. They wear any mask that gives them what they want. He doesn't have to deliver anything as his motives are purely selfish and he doesn't care. Republicans eat the shit out of any strongman's toilet. Even when they are the mark.
Republicans are also morally flexible, as in they have none. What they want is easily manipulated and varies with the last con artist they listened to. Their main consistent policy over the last 40 years is robbing women of their bodily autonomy and expanding corporate power. They see politics as a game of football. A team exercise of their side against the others while not noticing the hand that picks their pocket. Democrats fall for the same trick much of the time as well.
Honestly I don't see compromising for crumbs as a viable strategy for us as the long game is always to make you settle for less while making you believe your getting more.
This will only happen if there is someone that the progressive democrats can get behind. Someone like Bernie but younger and more angry. Someone that will call out the bullshit and do it in a way that will get the attention of the big media corporations. I hate to say it but a progressive trump, but smarter (which shouldn't be difficult) and genuinely out to better the lives of the American citizens. And I genuinely hope that this unicorn exists.