We as Americans have no "good" options left.
I hope I am forgiven for the disorganized nature of this diary. It has been months since I have seen fit to post here, or anywhere really, even though I am an active lurker. My writing skills are out of practice.
I do not believe that we as Americans have many "good" options left. The Democratic party seems to have lost it's spine, having been outplayed and outgunned, and outsmarted at just about every turn. Our "victories" if you can call them that have been pyrrhic in nature at best, and at worst outright gimmes to the industries that were supposed to be regulated/reformed. The Democratic party is either whipped or subverted by lobbyists and special interests.
If Barack Obama and the Democratic party capitulate the Social safety net is further shredded. If they do not the entire country marches off a cliff. There is no middle ground with the Republican party.
An endless series of retreats and concessions has led us here, as has been previously (and much more eloquently) stated. The only question in my mind is if main street will ever truly wake up to reality, or if the American public (as I am beginning to suspect) has an endless capacity to be fucked. Our public discourse has been dragged to the far right by a corporate owned media, and We as Americans seem to have a sort of "battered wife/Stockholm syndrome" going on. I believe that the Democratic party has failed on a systematic level to be a counter to a Republican party, that has frankly, lost its goddamn mind.
Our President hems and haws and even when he supposedly gets "angry" he sounds like a chemistry teacher giving a lecture to a group of unruly students.
Where do we go from here?