State of the Union.

I'm a progressive, I always have been, but some of my progressive brethren are beginning to annoy. The country has been moving to the right for the past 30 years. It's so far to the right now that Barry Goldwater would be considered a card carrying Communist. Given that situation up front, just what would you have President Obama do? It's our fault. We allowed this state of affairs to happen, and were too d*** lazy to get involved and prevent it. As an aggregate we voted in the current absolutely awful congress. We were cowardly after 911, and traded Constitutional principles for safety, and allowed our civil liberties to be taken away by the most UN American gang of thugs and third raters ever to govern. Instead of looking for a man on a horse, and throwing the President under the bus for trying to get SOMETHING done, direct your anger and frustration at the conservative movement in the United States, where it belongs. That will require solidarity, and a shared vision. So far it's been like herding cats. Time to get real, or it won't matter how principled and correct you are.
"The USA will move so far to the right you won't recognize it"- Ed Meese, former US Atty. Gen for and career-long confidante to Ronald Reagan, front man for the cabal that mainstreamed fascism in America. Meese, tragically, was entirely correct. In this context, we can see that the "ultra-liberal" or "socialist" current president is actually a Nixon Republican. Remember Nixon? The guy who founded the EPA, opened relations with China.
This is no longer about left versus right. It's obvious that all we have is right wing, whether it is far far right wing as represented in the GOP or center right as represented by the Democratic Party. We no longer have real choice. While Obama will be a better president than Romney due to the fact that the Democratic Party isn't off the cliff into crazy right wing land, both parties are owned by Wall Street and the banking and military industrial complex. That is clearly why it is no longer left versus right. It is Wall Street versus the people of the United States. What choice do we have? How far can we swing to the Right before it is too late?
As I listen to all the disinformation we are fed every day I just shake my head. As I listen to other people retell and respreads these half-truths and lies I just cry.