pjwestin comments on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more?

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All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And you're not even getting into his foriegn policy or his continuation of the, "War on Terror." Establishing the drone program as an unaccountable assassination tool of the Executive Branch? Collecting Americans metadata from tech companies without a warrent? Prosecuting leakers under the Espionage Act? You could credibly argue that he was further right than Bush on national security. Every time Trump subpoenas a journalist for their sources I think,."Damn, I wish Obama hadn't normalized this shit."

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Don’t forget about keeping open the extrajudicial indefinite detention and torture prison.

Obama was such a fucking disappointment. After 8 years of Bush it looked like we were getting change and then he just kept things the same. He probably contributed more to my movement leftward than Bernie did.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Good point, he promised to close it when he was campaigning, but he just couldn't do it for some reason once he was in office.

Obama won overwhelmingly by campaigning as a progressive, then governed as a centrist, and 8 years later, voters abandoned the party. Somehow, the establishment's takeaway from that was, "we need to be less progressive."

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