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Okay, so Obama has in many ways already disappointed those who've voted for him, and he hasn't yet even assumed his office.
Okay, so many of us will wait until he's had time in office to see if he can actually effect any of the "changes" we Progressives would like to see. And politics is politics, so we can't expect total improvement overnight, and some compromises are literally inevitable, even for those who are the very best intentioned.
Okay. Not pretty, but eminently reasonable.
So, IF the Obama administration turns out, after the next four or even eight years, to be basically business as usual, THEN will it be time to finally reject all of the Republicans AND the Democrats? Or will we once again clutch desperately at the next Dem candidates promising "change" who will be marched out by the corporate-owned big media in the next election cycles?
It's a rational question. After all, a brick wall will continue to stand no matter how many times one bangs one's head against it. What's that popular definition of "insanity," again?
