re: #242 jimbo2150

I would be more willing to vote for someone who is going to stand on their principles than give in.

So would I. Unfortunately, the # of voters who would agree with us on political policy is not very large.

Obama won because he appealed to constituencies that don’t typically vote in high numbers; if he had motivated those voters through a progressive platform, that would have been great. I’ve been arguing for years that the Dems need to stop “triangulating” and to differentiate themselves from the GOP on economic issues (as argued in What’s the Matter With Kansas?). But he didn’t really run on a progressive platform - he appealed to those voters because of who he was, not his stated political ideology. And I don’t think that now would have been a productive time for him to make a stand on principle.

To me I would see that the Republicans would be holding out for the rich.

That’s what you will see when the tax cuts come up again in two years. As it stands now, that issue would have been coupled with a politically crippling tax increase for middle class Americans.

Also, I want to know what compromises are? The country has moved to more conservative principles over the past decades than needed. The biggest issue I had was when Obama got the office and agreed with and continued Bush’s hushing the fact that major telecom companies were selling Americans’ phone data to the gov without warrant. That also killed the whistleblowers’ rights and stomped on the American people’s privacy and freedoms.

You’ve got no argument from me on any of that.