Prescribing The Obvious
by digby
For some reason this headline from Bob Shrum made me giggle a little bit:
Obama needs a dose of ideology
Obviously, I think he’s right. But then I’ve thought that for the last three years, so I guess that’s why I’m amused.
Shrum says that Obama will be memorialized in the long run as a great president for all the sweeping changes he’s made but that right now he needs to make a progressive argument. But you know the old saying about the long run.
Meanwhile, here in the short run, we have some fairly intense issues that must be dealt with. And wouldn’t you know it, people seem to be falling back on tired, conservative tropes. I think that might be because nobody in the damned Democratic party can be bothered to explain to them any other way of thinking about this. (It’s a “center-right” country dontcha know.) So yeah, a little ideology would be quite helpful, but only if we actually want to solve these problems rather than hasten the pace of the country’s implosion.
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