Why I'm Not Ready to Give Up on America

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from Michael J.W. Stickings, founder and editor of The Reaction, a liberal political blog, at HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-jw-stickings/why-im-not-ready-to-give_b_438785.html


HONESTLY, I'm at the point where I think America may have had it. Eight years of Bush were bad enough, of course, but this past week witnessed further decline.

I'm not sure if America has a hope in hell, as they say, of recovering.

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I retain a trace of optimism. Democrats may come around and pass health-care reform, after all; that is, if they know what's good for them.

And it's not like Republicans have anything in the way of a viable alternative agenda. All they have is the same old set of failed right-wing policies that got America into this mess in the first place. And, in Congress, all they seem to be able to do is oppose and obstruct.

If the polls are to be believed, the American people may be generally unhappy with Obama and generally skeptical about health-care reform (although they tend to support it when they know what it's about, and much of the opposition to the reform bills in Congress comes from those on the left who want there to be more substantive reform, not no reform), as well as about the stimulus package that has pulled the country back from the brink of economic apocalypse.

But Obama is still president and the Democrats still have solid majorities in Congress, and there is still time to do what needs to be done . . .


read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-jw-stickings/why-im-not-ready-to-give_b_438785.html

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