Never Trust A Politician or Liberals Unite

When I was in college, way back when, the operant warning was never trust anyone over thirty. It was probably just an expression to highlight the disparity between youth and that mystical age when someone settled into a life of maturity. What we have witnessed since the election of Obama is evidence enough that politicians have only one goal, one objective, and one priority – their reelection. The country, their promises, their vision, their this and their that are little more than deceptive rhetoric designed to dupe the electorate into thinking that they have concerns and principles.
Obama is a case study in modern day political chicanery. He and his campaign staff pulled off one of the greatest scams of all time. To win the primary, he was the embodiment of Kennedy, Johnson (let's forget Vietnam and look to the Great Society), Roosevelt, Wilson (yes he was the peace the man) and even Lincoln. Once in office, he turned out to be little more than a hack Alderman in the bowels of Chicago politics. No greater disappointment has ever been seen in American politics.
But we liberals shouldn't be dismayed for we weren't the only ones to be hoodwinked. Hell, he fooled the Nobel committee into giving him the peace prize. How foolish do you suppose those folks feel?
All this bunk about a Team of Rivals when he assembled his staff was just that – bunk. Hell from day one the objective of his inner circles was reelection. Why else would he give those Wall Street insiders key role in his economic team. He was an orator of the first order, but as was mentioned here before, there is major difference between leading and getting elected. Obama morphed into a Republican stooge of the first order. From day one, he pranced about filling our collective head with optimistic rhetoric while the “loyal opposition” was busy designing a blueprint that would, in effect, derail any attempt at moving the ship of state from any progressive port back to the backwaters of the swampy world where the rich get richer and corporations subsist on the succor of the government while shipping jobs so vital to the economy to countries where they can exploit the workers and pollute the environment. Meanwhile, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner was huddling with generals and expanding the wars and laying the ground work for even more military actions. Man, were the Who ever prescient when they sang, “Welcome to the new boss – the same as the old boss.”
All this and now we have these “no-nothing” tea party freaks running around mouthing slogans and catch phrases they learned from idiot media personalities and thinking they are the vanguard to a new era of prosperity. I know a lot of these old fools think that they are the true Americans but they are nothing short of being throwbacks to a time when people preferred their ignorance to science.
But perhaps these die hard no nothings are providing us liberals with a model. Perhaps their greatest contribution is to show us progressives a way. What us liberals should now do is throw out all these establishment politicians who claim to be liberals and get stick in the mud truly committed folks. We need to begin to elect people who don't back down or compromise or pretend to be conciliatory. We need straight up proponents of social activism. We need a need a liberal caucus who will be just as intransigent as these so called patriots who know nothing of patriotism, I guess we can call or ourselves the Thomas Paine movement. Give us liberty and our country or catch hell from us.