RE: Open Letter to Obama
September 30, 2011 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2011 at 5:10 pm by bozo.)
From a UK and Socialist perspective, I understand your frustration.
Your experience of supreme disappointment with the outcome of voting in a " progressive " is eerily reminiscent of the experience UK voters had when in 1997 a landslide took a certain Tony Blair, devout christian and closest ally of your ex-president Bush ( you will recall they both felt god telling them to invade Iraq ) into Downing Street as our Prime Minister. Many ordinary folk thought he was " progressive " but over time, discovered to their cost that he was a charlatan of the worst kind.
He and his accolytes hijacked the Labour Party, turned it away from its historical mission to act in the interests of the working class and instead turned it into a party of " the centre " , in effect lurching further to the right, into areas even the Conservative Thatcher governments of the 80's dared not go.
Sadly, the lesson is to not to put your faith and trust in some politician on the make.
Better to study closely how a candidate for the highest office got there and then cast your vote.
The mistake the UK made was essentially a desire for change with scant regard for what " change " was on offer.
Your experience of supreme disappointment with the outcome of voting in a " progressive " is eerily reminiscent of the experience UK voters had when in 1997 a landslide took a certain Tony Blair, devout christian and closest ally of your ex-president Bush ( you will recall they both felt god telling them to invade Iraq ) into Downing Street as our Prime Minister. Many ordinary folk thought he was " progressive " but over time, discovered to their cost that he was a charlatan of the worst kind.
He and his accolytes hijacked the Labour Party, turned it away from its historical mission to act in the interests of the working class and instead turned it into a party of " the centre " , in effect lurching further to the right, into areas even the Conservative Thatcher governments of the 80's dared not go.
Sadly, the lesson is to not to put your faith and trust in some politician on the make.
Better to study closely how a candidate for the highest office got there and then cast your vote.
The mistake the UK made was essentially a desire for change with scant regard for what " change " was on offer.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
