Been up all night, working on my show Time for some sleep. I'll leave you with this

[MrScorpio]

I figure that it really doesn't matter who on the left is going to be president, unless he has big left money and big left numbers backing him up.

The Right knows this and are doing everything that they can to hamstring Obama and the left by any means possible.

Killing public sector unions, taxing the poor and working class to death and restricting voter rolls is all part of their game. There are other parts, as I'm sure that we can all come up against.

Even on the Left, there are people willing to scapegoat Democrats because it brings them attention and clicks to their websites. If they were HAPPY instead of CONTROVERSIAL, that would undercut their income. Net based business models and interview invitations are the driving forces behind this. So not all outrage, in fact, is justified. A reader has to pick and choose from the deluge of "outrage" to get at the facts. Frankly, repeat offenders who lie and distort should be relegated to the trash heap of insignificance, instead of getting called and called again to express their latest "outrage" about the latest controversy. But they know that preexisting dissatisfaction is rampant, and they're all too very willing to exploit it for their own gain.

The Media can only be depended upon to function as gossip mongers… See above.

And on the ground, a lot of us don't know what to think. I'm sure that a lot of us aren't thinking at any given time when we're too busy reacting. Also, see above.

My point is that a Democratic president, ANY Democratic president is going to be compromised by the present system. That's the way it works. It's a form of control. A president may have some leeway, but not a lot in any given situation. Our system makes it much more harder to build than destroy instead. There's a lot more money in destroying and we're not the ones getting it. Politics is all about controlling the people in outward power by those who are behind the scenes. The ones who can gather more money than us, drive public opinion and sow doubt with propaganda. Prevent YOU from exercising your own rights in any way. Obstruct in any way possible.

They control him (or her) by controlling you. And they would love for you to give up. There was a troll here just a moment ago… What did he appear to do? Give up, of course. In his own warped way, he was trying to set an example. No one took the bait, obviously. But that's because the person was an idiot and was incapable of being patient, carefully duplicitous and clever enough to effectively deceive.

They may be idiots, but we shouldn't underestimate their potential for harm. Also we should never underestimate the potential for us to harm ourselves. Which we do, because we feel that we're not worthy, especially if obstruction happens at any given time.

Now… On the other hand, there are people who are, in fact, fighting back, and it's about time. It a battle call that we all must join. Because, we're all at stake here.

But most of all, no one, not even the person at the top should be expected to go it alone without enough strong support. No matter what the webbies and talking heads would have you believe. No matter what your closely held ideals are, biting the bullet has a necessity all its own.

Democracy does not function on auto-pilot. It must have all of our hands on the wheel all of the time. Otherwise, we'll surrender the wheel to those who're all too happy to drive us into a crevasse at a high rate of speed and collect the insurance dough before skipping town.


Later, folks.

[flamingdem]

1. good insights for these times nt

[MrScorpio]

2. I try

I try