From Popular Resistance: "Is Obama’s legacy really all butterflies and rainbow flags?"

Washington, DC – Following a week of impressive Supreme Court decisions, many are saying Obama’s legacy is secure. But is it really? Has all of America forgotten about the war on whistle blowers, the war on immigrants, the war on drugs, war on privacy, and the war on civilians living underneath drone aircraft? This not mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the continuing pillaging by Wall Street. So how exactly is Obama’s legacy secure? Well, sometimes it takes a comedy show to break all this down. Watch this clip from “Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp.”

RESISTANCE REPORT by Lee Camp
https://www.popularresistance.org/video-5-hints-obamas-legacy-will-not-b...

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lotlizard's picture

All too true to be funny.

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but its more reality-based.

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Unabashed Liberal's picture

lens, I suspect that his so-called legacy will be sterling.

My best to Max and Rusty, and hope that your weather has finally normalized.

Mollie


"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."--Author Unknown
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

JayRaye's picture

Sadly, I think you're right, Mollie. Until the upper middle class is also being destroyed most neoliberals won't care that the working class (many of whom are women and people of color and LGBT) is being destroyed or that immigrant families are being torn apart, or drones, or....etc.

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons

LapsedLawyer's picture

over at Big Orange. The other day it was brooklynbadboy and just yesterday it was Rich in PA with the talking point about how gathering the most money makes you a "winner" and they only vote for "winners."

To which point I left my own riposte.

It's no wonder we continually get neolib neocon policies out of the "peoples' party" when we have so many Dems paying obeisance to the money race and damn the policy that results.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYg2mvT_Ow]

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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

shaharazade's picture

the truth dished out with some humor is a good relief. I think people all around the world are waking up to the neoliberal scam. Dkos is not reality based it's the Democratic version of the Bush Republican dead-ender's. It's fake identity politics and victimization taken to the delusional limit. The management and the diehard partisans are almost comical in their insane denial and fixation on hating the Republican clown show.

The culture war is pumped relentlessly with no redeeming value other then self flagellation for the self righteous. These same people then turn around and support, laud the very policies, agenda and direction that the global 'oligarchical collectivists' are implementing. As BTD said years ago before he reverted back to Armando 'Delusional!'.

I'm encouraged at the moment because of several news stories that are shedding light on the cracks in the disaster cappie's neoliberal grip on the world. Bernie's growing popularity for one thing. He's not a working class hero who will deliver us to a democratic just society but I'm impressed with the numbers of ordinary people who are showing up and tuning in to and agreeing with his message about economic disparity and austerity. The middle class even the upper middle class are alarmed and losing ground.

A corporate big wig woman on my street a 'upper management manager' as she describes her self is coming out for Bernie. This is a Democratic Hillary supporting woman who did not speak to me for 6 months after I canvased and campaigned for Obama in the 2008 primary. From local city state to the feds, all classes are being sold out. It cannot hold as even the upper middle class is feeling the squeeze. The funny money just can't hold.

Greece saying Oxi to the Troika is an eye opener to many who have been brainwashed to think that Axelrod's 'world as we find it' is inevitable and non negotiable. I've read so many pieces written by economists that say this is political and it is about democracy. Seems to me we're in for a bumpy road but movement is occurring. Displaced fear may win the day as far as rigged absurd elections go. I am however encouraged that globally and here, many people seem aware that this house of cards is falling.

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JayRaye's picture

exactly, & everywhere the 99% looks around and sees the walls closing in.

After awhile that can folks to want to push back.

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons