by folks that ran, screaming and searching for their own balls, from here, mainly). The text below is, honest to God, a post I just put on my local Progressive site, in response to some woman who is ready to ditch
Obama, and Democrats because we are still fighting in Afghanistan and compromised on healthcare:
so, you can see, I'm as popular with the far left, as I tend to be with the right-wingnuts.....and, ya know, that's just fine by me.Slick wrote: This last article sums up succinctly my fears. With the glass filled up a little bit, Liberal/Progressives will grow so impatient, so fast, they will give everything right back to the extremists that ran the show from 2000-2008. Sure, there have been some pretty severe compromises, and the reality, thus far, of the Obama presidency is that we don’t live in a Progressive Nirvana. Here’s a hint: we never did. The US is, and will be for the forseeable future, FAR to the right of most Western European nations. The only way to nudge it in the right direction is SLOWLY and with extreme patience.
At least, at present you have a number of elected officials who will listen to your
point of view. We’ve seen nothing but closed minds and closed doors for the previous
8 years. Is that what you wish to return to??
Finally, as I stated last month, no one who paid the least attention to Obama on the campaign trail, should expect a pacifist. Neither should anyone expect anyone in his positon(President) to be a pacifist, given the reality of where the US stands in the world, and the role we have inherited. Once again, changes are going to be gradual,
and with any luck, we’ll see a sensible, restrained foreign policy again. Still, when the world is full of religious and political extremists, hell bent on threatening the lives of our citizenry, pacifism would be equivalent to suicide. And, to pack up and run, post-haste from Afghanistan, or ignore the disorganized mess that Yemen provides,
alongside two of the world’s major shipping lanes, would be extremely foolhardy.
What, Dorothy, would YOU do, besides complain about what is being done?
