"We the People" & the Professional Left- A Rant....

[Joan Ruaiz]

We the people are who actually votes in elections,
and a majority of votes is what elects politicians to office,
and Politicians are who drafts and passes legislation,
and legislation passed and signed is what enacts the
laws of our land.

Had we voted for a dictatorship as of November 5, 2008
where all was handled by fiat, perhaps voter apathy in 2010 would have been appropriate.

and yes, that would have meant that we could have turned 30 years of
rabid corporate capitalism upside down in two years flat...

but that isn't the reality nor the political system that we have operated in since
democracy was established in the United States of America.....

and when folks don't include political reality into their political analysis, then it is hard to take them seriously....
even if they've got the list of problems right...because they seem not to understand
that the remedies are much more difficult to achieve than they bodly assert.

The truth about Wisconsin and how the governor was elected is simple....
More people who supported him went to the polls than those who didn’t.

The other truth is that it is the Supreme Court who allowed Citizens United.

Neither of those things can be blamed on any one person,
but I do blame unrealistic people who wanted everything done
even if they lacked votes and hadn’t bothered to get organized
in order to have a loud popular majority doing what needed to be done
to get things as they wished them.

The ridiculousness of folks who point their finger to make only one politician responsible for everything,
even as that politician requested support time and time again,
and the only response he got were folks throwing rocks at him while jeering his every utterance,
as they insisted while disconnected of any political reality
that this President had the power on his own to get it all done.
He didn't, and folks actually knew that.

Those same folks would choose to ignore the power of the corporate media,
the fickleness of the average voter, or the power of corporate money
which does not a realistic political assessement makes.

These Obama critics have inhabited the impossible twilight zone since that November of 2008,
and have lifted not a finger once that day happened.....
although they tend to be the first to open their mouth to spout their opinions as to why things are as they are.
If these same folks would be more supportive, and at least acknowledge the good along with what they perceived as the bad,
perhaps they would not have assisted so many in believing that sitting out 2010 was ok, or might teach this President a lesson,
Or well so be it.....putting meanwhile at peril all of us including the nation's most susceptible.

The point is that this President understands that politics is equal only to the number of voters one can have applying direct pressure to the opposition...
and since so many believe this president to be the opposition and are acting accordingly, this would result in putting the GOP in power,
as they are the only alternative to this President, realistically and politically speaking. period.

We can't have our cake and eat it too! We cannot criticize this administration's every single moves all along,
and in the meantime expect the same administration to maintain the power to make the changes that we demand.
and in the end, that strategy results in loses, and what we need to be clear on is who loses.
Those who think that it is the politicians who lose,
They flunk the "We the People" test.

[Cha]

I don't think it's about our country with the professional left..it's more about how much money they can rake into their coffers no matter who's in the White House.

I've been fortunate and not had to read any of their dribble for a long time now. My junk mail filter works brilliantly.

Righteous Rant, Joan..thank you!

[jaxx]

The naysayers have done more damage to PBO than the teapubs have. When nothing is ever good enough, when something good happens and they immediately run on to the next thing they demand, when they ignore all progress and bitch about nothing being done.

With friends like these........no we do not need them.

[JuniperLea]

(02-28-2011 07:09 AM)jaxx Wrote:  The naysayers have done more damage to PBO than the teapubs have. When nothing is ever good enough, when something good happens and they immediately run on to the next thing they demand, when they ignore all progress and bitch about nothing being done.

With friends like these........no we do not need them.

Yep! Their goalpost has wheels.

[RoyGBiv]

(02-28-2011 02:07 PM)JuniperLea Wrote:  

(02-28-2011 07:09 AM)jaxx Wrote:  The naysayers have done more damage to PBO than the teapubs have. When nothing is ever good enough, when something good happens and they immediately run on to the next thing they demand, when they ignore all progress and bitch about nothing being done.

With friends like these........no we do not need them.

Yep! Their goalpost has wheels.

Well oiled ones.

[Treestar]

And these people do not organize or contribute anything. They sit there and wait for President Obama to do their bidding. That's not how this country works. You can always start up a group and start marching or campaigning. That is what we are free to do.

[SeattleGirl]

(02-28-2011 09:53 AM)Treestar Wrote:  And these people do not organize or contribute anything. They sit there and wait for President Obama to do their bidding. That's not how this country works. You can always start up a group and start marching or campaigning. That is what we are free to do.

Exactly, Treestar. It's like I've said before, people like that sit upon their imaginary thrones and expect Obama to do their bidding at the snap of their fingers.

Hmmmm.....wonder if they realize how much like slave masters they are behaving.