I had an epiphany ...

[TheMadMonk]

13. Your idea of progressive/lefty in the US, qualifies as roughly centre,...

...bordering on right of centre in pretty much all of the rest of the Western World.

It does not take many seatbelt, helmet, mobile phone, similar "I'm not hurting anybody" threads to see just how libertarian even progressive champions can be in the US.

What he/his administration has been doing to date is: Making permanent and expanding upon Bush/Cheney's temporary, emergency powers;
Made permanent the TEMPORARY Bush tax cuts;
Expanded enormously upon the USA's extra-judicial/legal program of targetted killings;
Rather than punish the banks, he allowed them to be compensated at the FURTHER EXPENSE of their victims and taxpayers in general;
Cracking down on whistleblowers;
Using selective enforcement of federal drug laws in states that have legalised marijuana to intimidate;
Overseeing the comercialisation of free public schooling;
Stood aside while Red States (and not a few blue) gutted labour laws;
Refused time and time again to prosecute proven malfeasance;


He is like the bullied kid who keeps going back, time and time again, to the bullies, in the ludicrous hope that if he eats enough shit, they'll one day make him their friend.