Reply #38: The president isn't giving the left any reasons to support him. [View All]

[ThomCat]

If you bother to pay attention you would see that he mostly pushes Republican themes, bills and goals.

He mostly attacks the left. He mostly accepts the framing of issues that the Republicans insist upon, and then defends it. And then after giving the Republicans what they want he insists that doing so was the most liberal possible outcome even when everyone on the left says that simply isn't so, and options on the left were never considered or offered as options.

Over and over again we are seeing these same patterns. If the left was giving good liberal and progressive programs to support, or even strong efforts to try to attain liberal and progressive programs, then the left would be there with support. But the left isn't going to support republican efforts.

Claiming that the left is failing Obama is looking at this backwards. Obama is failing the left. Obama is working from the right, and achieving great success for his corporate backers and for moderate republicans.

Obama's move to the right is an excellent example of why the whole party needs to support a move to the left again. Our party has become too used to supporting moves to the right, and too used to quietly rationalizing it and justifying it whenever it happens.