Oh my fucking god. Old people are smoking crack.
But he didn’t start this. The renewal has been going on for the last seven and a half years, led by the most successfully progressive president since LBJ.
You know who was more liberal than Obama? Richard Fucking Nixon.
A Republican.
Why are people like Lance Mannion and Kevin Drum and so many more so hell-bent on smacking down Sanders after he’s finished? He’s lost. It’s done. I guess they want to make sure the entire movement is quashed, too. (Can’t let those house prices even be threatened even a little bit.)
Mannion has no clue how the federal budget or economy works, either. The federal government is not funded by tax. Know what happens to the money you send to the IRS? It’s essentially destroyed. If you were sending physical money in, they’d throw it into an incinerator.
According to Mannion:
1) Clinton being a woman makes her magically progressive (just like Sarah Palin?)
2) Sanders did nothing of consequence that others hadn’t already done.
3) Being corrupt is just part of being a politician. Sanders isn’t a real politician because he’s not corrupt like Clinton.
4) Hillary is to the left of Bernie in some areas. (Ha.)
5) Obama did all he could possibly do, the poor little baby, to help but the meanies just wouldn’t let him do more!
I’ve heard of revisionist history. But revisionist present is something we need a more concise term for as it’s becoming so common these days.
The Overton Window is almost never shifted by national politicians. Politicians are reactive. If a movement dies, it won’t be because any one politician lost or won a primary.
I’ve often seen the “Nixon and Eisenhower were more progressive than current [politician]” meme being bandied about for a long time and it comes off as being effective and as relevant as mentioning that the Republican party freed the slaves and was the party of Lincoln, no matter how true it is.
It is a testament to the absolute setbacks suffered by progressives over my lifetime and that huge shifting of the Overton Window to the right that 1) anyone claims progressive advancement during Obama’s presidency with a straight face and 2) he has faced such massive opposition for his very centrist piecemeal legislation.