Hell, the same ones denying male privilege are denying white privilege

[liberalmike27]

15. Yea

It's hard to see the little people, from way up there on your mountain of money.

That said, Obama is operating in a context of 35 years of no "Fairness Doctrine," in our media, which resulted beginning in 1987, of television and the networks putting up a right-wing media, or a very short, right tilted "range" from MSNBC (which really didn't show up until 2002 or so, due to liberals and democrats leaving the media going to the Internet in droves) to FOX.

So that is 25 years of BS television, worshiping the rich, and hating on the poor. But it would have been nice if he'd towed the line, and been a bit more careful about not alienating his base in 2010, which gave up the House, as if constant filibusters in the Senate, weren't enough.

I like to wonder what it would've been like with another 5 or so Democratic Senators, or 66, like FDR had in his first term. Suffice it to say, in my dreams, we're doing a lot better in this scenario, as we'd have passed measures to actually bring jobs back, to cut tax breaks to corporations, and remove incentives to off-shore, and globalize away jobs.

But we didn't--and we had wildly unprecedented resistance in the Senate, then gerrymandering due to Republicans working States hard, winning, then making onerous laws which beat us in the House. We can't afford to not be united, as we will fall, and no despair is allowed, at least not at the voting booth. And hey, third party liberals--if you can't win a Democratic Party primary, then don't run, as you damned sure aren't going to win as a Third Party. You're just going to push us further to the right.