[Peace-discuss] Another interesting article that speaks to the illusion that so-called liberal/progressive democrats actually turn out to be such.

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

For those liberal, reform-minded, hopeful progressives who are banking their
hopes on Obama doing the right thing  by them and actually representing the
ordinary work-a-day world man-in-the-street, the interests of common good as
seen by  the everyday person, or change in any really significant and
fundamental way in which society is structured or works, I think that they
really need to take a clear look at history and accept the facts of the
countries historical past.   Experience should have taught them, but
evidently it did not, that deluding one's self into believing that things
are going to change if they only complain LOUD ENOUGH, if they only petition
Obama ENOUGH, if they threaten him that they will hold him accountable come
the next election, and if they work hard enough to move the center more to
the left.

 

Given this, I respectfully submit the following for your edification:

 

t r u t h o u t | 11.20

 

Norman Solomon | A Media Parable for "the Center"

http://www.truthout.org/112008A

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "It's been 16 years since a Democrat moved into
the White House. Now, the fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up
to explain that Barack Obama must hew to 'the center' if he knows what's
good for his presidency. 'Many political observers,' The San Francisco
Chronicle reported days ago, say that Obama 'must tack toward the political
mainstream to avoid miscalculations made by President Bill Clinton, who
veered left and fired up the 1994 Republican backlash.' This storyline
provides a kind of political morality play: The new president tried to
govern from the left, and Democrats lost control of Congress just two years
later. But, if facts matter, the narrative is a real head-scratcher."

 

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