Obama is no longer my president

[byronius]

88. Sufficiently-complex-thinking-people have always been a herd of cats, and humans are knee-jerky

to begin with. Programming issues, I should think.

Thanks for this post. I read the polemics, listen to the evidence, and still don't think the man has an authoritarian bone in his body. We can't possibly know what's really going on, but my judgment of Barack Obama stands pretty much as it has since the beginning: human, decent moral compass, highly intelligent, politically astute, and given our demographic/ideological makeup as a nation, we do not rate such competence. I view him as an incredible anomaly that will soon vanish, never to be replaced by the like -- the splintering left will most likely allow someone truly monstrous to rise from the GOP ashes, just like always. The imperfect is the enemy of the good, blah blah blah splat.

And we'll suffer horribly for it. And people will die. And there'll probably be some intense catastrophe that will reset the whole experiment. And if we live, somewhere down the road, the survivors will view these days much the same way we view slavery. And perhaps the Asocial Corporate Form and the Church Of Hoarding will fade from history forever. I hope so.

Citizens United, I think, is a blade in our back. We're bleeding slowly to death, and Barack's just doing triage.

Hey! But there might be a Coronal Mass Ejection event on the way. And that would make the whole conversation moot, now wouldn't it.