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The problem with not voting (fedia.io)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/tumblr

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (34 children)

Obama ran as a radical leftist

Do we live in the same reality?

[–] pjwestin 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (22 children)

Off the top of my head, he was going to bailout the mortgage holders, reign in the banks, close Gitmo, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pass universal healthcare, and end warrantless wiretaps. He either abandoned those objectives (sometimes when he held a super-majority) or technically did something but not really (like ending the warrantless wiretap program but creating a mass surveillance program). Anyway, maybe, "radical leftist," is a little hyperbolic, but he ran further to the left than anyone had since the 70s and he governed slightly to the left of George W.

[–] FlashMobOfOne 3 points 9 months ago (20 children)

It's more accurate to say he made leftist promises, and then turned out to be just another conservative asshole with amazing oratory skills.