Barack Obama - From Hope To Nope -Capitulation We Can't Believe

Dear President Obama,

 

 

 

 

I am a liberal Democrat who donated time and money to put you in the White House. I, like so many others, worked hard making calls and knocking on doors to help get you elected President with the hope that you would use your office to save the disappearing middle class from the Republican induced slide into serfdom – not so you can “welcome” the same failed “Republican ideas” turning “The Land of the Free” into “The United States of Serfs and Lords” since Reaganomics declared war on those not “born on third base thinking they hit a triple,” as Anne Richards once said to describe George W. Bush.

 

I have been watching in anguish as you squander the mandate and the majority we worked for and negotiate away the progressive initiatives that would not only give the American People a chance, once again, at the American Dream, but also ensure the Democratic majority for generations.

 

Now I see you AGAIN pining for Republicans like a battered spouse pining for an abuser while the Republicans promise to destroy you – and by extension destroy WE THE PEOPLE.

 

I would agree that the midterms were a repudiation of your policies if the People were actually CORRECTLY INFORMED ABOUT THEM and having a conversation in the REAL WORLD. The FACT is that most people are woefully misinformed BY DESIGN and are wedded to outright lies perpetrated by Republican propaganda outlets like Fox “News.”

 

So, NO… The Republicans did not win because people embrace Republican policies... They voted AGAINST YOU because, besides the misinformation campaigns designed to make them stupid enough to vote for their own demise, the American People want a leader with a spine.

 

Your incessant penchant for capitulation sends the message that Republican ideas have merit and your constant submission merely makes you looks weak.

 

If you KNOW that the Bush tax giveaways to the rich will add 700 Billion to the deficit while not creating A SINGLE JOB, WHY WOULD YOU CAPITULATE to it? Republican ideas are what GOT US into this mess – which is why THEIR benefactors have the millions of dollars it takes to run misinformation campaigns targeting Democrats.

 

To quote Harry S. Truman, “The Democrats are for the people. The Republicans are for the special interests. They've always been for the special interests.”

 

This is the message you need to stick to – NOT “we welcome Republican ideas!”

 

Republican “ideas” can be broken down to two words – CHEAP LABOR… And now… WITH YOUR HELP… they are actively hurting the People for political gain.

 

SO WHY would you validate Republican policies that have FAILED THE WORKING PEOPLE whenever they are tried and collapsed the economy for a SECOND time in a century?

 

Why would you agree to policies that will guarantee more people fall into poverty while the rich disappear behind the walls of their gated communities?

 

When they attacked FDR, he FOUGHT BACK with COURAGE:

 

“…although I rubbed my eyes when I read it, we have been told that it was not a Republican depression, but a Democratic depression from which this Nation was saved in 1933 - that this Administration this one today - is responsible for all the suffering and misery that the history books and the American people have always thought had been brought about during the twelve ill-fated years when the Republican party was in power.

 

Now, there is an old and somewhat lugubrious adage which says: "Never speak of rope in the house of a man who has been hanged." In the same way, if I were a Republican leader speaking to a mixed audience, the last word in the whole dictionary that I think I would use is that word "DEPRESSION."

 

Are you really a Democrat or just so traumatized by growing up as a mixed-race child with an absent father that you can’t upset the big, authoritarian, white daddies whose approval you desperately long for?

 

Are you just an empty suit that doesn't have the courage of Democratic convictions?

 

Democratic Policies WORK - and we have history to back that up. The Dems gave us the New Deal policies that CREATED the America Dream and built the middle class!

 

Conversely, Republican policies destroyed the middle class, created the widest gap between rich and poor and turned America into the LEAST upwardly mobile of all industrialized nations.

 

I understand that there is a 24-hour propaganda channel devoted to destroying you (and that’s another thing. Why would you walk back from THE TRUTH when your administration called Fox “News” an arm of the Republican Party? THAT IS THE REALITY –and their million-dollar donation to the RGA is just a confirmation of what everyone knows. Why do you NEVER stick to your guns?) …but SOOO WHAT?

 

The TRUTH and the TRAGEDY is that people who are paying attention know that you have done more for the middle class in 2 years than ALL Republicans have done since well before the time Reaganomics declared war on working people.

 

Unfortunately, your “bipartisan Kum Bah Ya” nonsense helped blow Republican booby traps in policies that COULD HAVE BEEN IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE for the people.

 

If you think that FINALLY Republicans will come to the table as the “Team of Rivals” you yearn for now that they’ve gained a majority in the House, you better come to his senses.

 

Capitulate to the GOP again and again and AGAIN and they will STILL call you a Socialist, a Marxist, a Kenyan, an "other." They will still work to destroy you (and US) – that’s a PROMISE reiterated repeatedly by Mitch McConnell - to ensure your policies fail, the America People CONTINUE to suffer, and you are a one-term President.

 

I’m sure you know that “undecided voters” or “Independents” are, in actuality, low-information voters. They don’t pay attention to politics until the last 2 weeks before the election. Then they turn on the TV and hear Republicans railing against you and they DON’T SEE ANY CONCRETE IMPROVEMENT in their lives, so it’s easy to be conned.

 

For instance… a health bill that keeps the insurance racket in charge AND doesn’t kick in until 2014 DOESN’T do ANYTHING to fix the miseries of TODAY!

 

Was it worth secretly bargaining away the STRONG PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY THE PEOPLE – The Public Option - to get the vote of Olympia Snowe?

 

You should have come out fighting with MEDICARE FOR ALL and then negotiated your way into a Public Option that KICKS IN IMMEDIATELY.

 

You gave the Republicans and their “privileged Princes”, as FDR called them, all the time in the world to “catapult the propaganda” and run the “BIG LIE” strategy on so-called “Obamacare” plunging the approval ratings for a program that forces insurance ghouls to treat people like humans – rather than hosts from which to suck profit – from above 70% approval to below 50%.

 

These numbers should be a reminder of the power of propaganda –not a reflection of what the people think is an effective policy.

 

So you squandered your mandate and your majority - but don’t for A SECOND think it is because the American People rejected liberal democracy – they rejected fecklessness and inaction.

 

Instead of trying to reflect Lincoln’s so-called “Team of Rivals”, you needed to be more like FDR – and UNAPOLOGETIC DEMOCRAT on the side of the people who never missed the opportunity to remind them which Party plunged them into Depression – and which Party pulled them OUT.

 

If you had reached back through the proud history of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY and channeled FDR – creating something like a 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps to put people back to work IMMEDIATELY, you (and by extension US) would not be in the position of having to endure another round of Republican assault on the working people of America.

 

When Democrats act like Democrats instead of "Republican Light" they win elections. Period. Just ask Blanch Lincoln and the other 20 Republican-Light “Blue Dogs” joining the ranks of the unemployed.

 

Why are you begging for Republican ideas when DEMOCRATIC ideas, policies and ACTION, CREATED the American Middle class? Before the New Deal, we had a country that was reflective of "Oliver Twist" - an upper class that ran everything and had all the wealth a small mercantile class and an EXTREMELY LARGE pool of poor, cheap labor to exploit.

 

These are pesky facts that the “undecided” voters don’t know. YOU need to REMIND THEM!

 

Reach back into the great history of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY for inspiration. We have plenty to be proud of and Republicans have… who? Lincoln? Read the 1864 Republican Platform and you will discover that Lincoln was a Liberal who would have been drummed out of today’s Republican Party.

 

STOP trying to win Republicans over and get help for those childhood wounds rather than work them out at the detriment of the People.

Be a PROUD DEMOCRAT!

 

Harry S. Truman said, “The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing- -And we don’t need to try it.

 

The record the Democrats have made in the last 20years is the greatest political asset any party EVER HAD IN WORLD HISTORY! We would be foolish to throw it away. THERE IS NOTHING OUR ENEMIES WOULD LIKE BETTER and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.”

 

Imagine this: Instead of looking like a whipped puppy at your press conference following the midterms, if you had come out swinging and HONESTLY explained to the American People that the REPUBLICANS are blocking EVERY attempt to get us out of the ditch for POLITICAL GAIN – and TURN THEIR EVIL STRATEGY AGAINST THEM!

 

When that reporter asked, “how does it feel?”

 

Rather than say, “it feels bad,” hoping to appear humble enough to win some Republican hearts- imagine if you said, “I fear for America. These elections saw the influence of foreign money and unprecedented power of anonymous special interests and their front groups that THREATENS our entire electoral system. These are the same powerful influences FDR reigned in with the New Deal… he called them ‘privileged princes” of ‘new economic dynasties, thirsting for power,’ who ‘reached out for control over government itself.’ They are BACK and, with the help of the Citizens United ruling, have democracy itself against the ropes! Tragically, REPUBLICANS are ALSO blocking every attempt to solve the problems THEY CREATED solely as a political strategy, proving again that they care only about their own jobs and futures – not the jobs and future of the American People!”

 

Now THAT would have been a game-changing statement that would use jujitsu to crush them under the weight of their own obstruction.

 

I know you give good speeches… in fact, I started to support you for the nomination and gave money to your campaign after your speech on race because it was a breath of fresh air for a politician to address a tough subject with HONESTY, warts and all…

WHERE IS THAT MAN?

 

Not to mention your incessant buying into the Republican talking points about deficit-reduction when we need a real STIMULUS from the bottom-up makes me really wonder about you. I’m sure you’re familiar with Republican strategist Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santa Claus Theory” – where Republicans spend like drunken sailors when in power and then scream about deficits when Democrats are in control as a strategy to privatize everything? Why wouldn’t you be honest with the American People and tell them that it’s ALL part of Republican strategy?

 

Why would you HELP their agenda rather than being STRAIGHT and HONEST with the People?

 

If you had been honest and courageous, instead of “we’ll compromise with Republicans” so their terrible, middle-class-killing ideas will finally create an American landed gentry and force future generations to compete with Chinese slaves for jobs…. WE THE WORKING PEOPLE wouldn’t be poised to, once again, fall off the Republican-created cliff.

 

The America People like a FIGHTER and they like a WINNER who takes ACTION – not some weak-capitulator, middle of the road, mush who compromises away our future in the name of “playing nice.”

 

Our GREATEST PRESIDENT FDR said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

 

I as YOU to start channeling him now - and remember that the only reason FDR didn’t get elected to a FIFTH term WAS BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD.

 

On the other hand, if you can’t muster the stomach for the fight, and would rather capitulate to abysmal policies meant to cut the “uppity” American worker down to size, please simply announce yourself as a one-term President so we can nominate someone with a spine and a stomach for the fight.

 

Done