2016 Postmortem

They do successfully manage to make deals with these institutions, sure...but these institutions don't put the same kind of backing behind them that is put behind republicans because they do just as well, and for the most part probably far better, under a Republican regime.

There is no disputing that Democrats are better than Republicans but they can't try to operate in the middle and get either A) enough corporate support to overwhelm their opponents, or B) enough populist support to counter the influence of the corporate media.

It would be very hard for me to look at Obama and think that he were cynically selling out the country. I don't believe he, nor Bill, nor Hillary intended to do that. That doesn't mean I think they see the world the way I do either though. And it doesn't mean that even if they do, I agree with whether or not their strategy has been a winning one for progressive ideals.

That said, I think Obama is an amazing human being, and from the get-go I thought his strategy of being so accommodating to the GOP might shame them into being reasonable, but I was forgetting the mechanisms of power, and just how little the GOP had to answer to public opinion, due to gerrymandered districts, and a media that didn't bother to pique the public's ire.

Yes though. I'm in agreement that we don't have to call them names or assume the worst in them and I won't. That said, I find it worth listening to those who see it differently from both sides of me, whether from the likes of Cenk in the throws his least generous tirades or you here.