This country is capable of great change during moments of great leadership.
That's a little naive.
America is a country that is ruled by a corporate duopoly posing as a functioning representative democratic republic.
This has been true fer generations now.
The two parties are both dependent on donations from the 400 richest families in the country and corporate dough, both domestic and international, in order to get elected and then re-elected.
Last election over 100 major corporations gave huge wads of cash to BOTH parties.
The will of the people and their long term needs and wants are given short shrift in order to facilitate a corporate agenda.
In light of that grim reality any change that comes to America through legislation is doomed to mediocrity. Doomed to be either crushed coming out the gate or de-clawed through lobbied loopholes and demonized in the MSM.
The way they are able to get away with is because the country is divided by social issues that never seem to find resolution.
The pro-life, anti-gay right point fingers at the pro-choice, pro-equal rights left thus ensuring that the politicians never find an electorate united against them.
Obviously the information age has helped matters somewhat. The low approval numbers of the Legislative branch of government bear out the idea that more folks are waking up to the untenable situation they find themselves in.
Within that context the idea that a single leader can change everything single-handedly is preposterous.
Spud holds to the idea that Obama is a well intentioned leader who is being stymied by the realities of his own need to please the powers-that-be as well as by the thoroughly corrupted congress and senate.
He's a good actor in a bad play.
Until corporate money is removed from the electoral process there can be no real change. The latest BS decision by the SCOTUS that money equals free speech dictates that things will only get worse from here on in.
Spud's 2 cents.
/Don't you just hate Canadian change?
Be Well.
