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No, the thing is he posed as a progressive and turned out to
be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency,
a national security presidency. The torturers go free. The Wall Street
executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza,
the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a
progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice
and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist
with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair. And that’s a very sad moment in
the history of the nation because we are—we’re an empire in decline. Our
culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our
political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off
with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of
our civil life. You would think that we needed somebody—a Lincoln-like figure
who could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility.
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