you can fight your opponents, or you can appropriate their agenda so you don’t have to risk losing. Obama destroyed the country. not because he couldn’t do the right thing — sure, he’d have been blocked — but because he made it clear the Democrats, the “good guys”, weren’t even willing to try.

weren’t even willing to say what the right thing was! they just picked up the fingers of their opponents and joined right in the wagging. they left no one left to believe in, to support, to understand as fighting for any kind of economic justice.

and we wonder at the electorate’s nihilism, how could they possibly elect a man like Trump.