re: #123 blueraven

I think that is a bit disingenuous. Obama is not responsible for peoples actions. Congress could be more helpful along with activist groups. The president cant take up each and every cause personally. Even JFK couldn’t do that.

Not meant to be a put down at all but, what have you done? As well as all of us who abhor these laws. Do we have to be prodded and inspired by someone else?

To add a bit more, I’m not really blaming Obama. The final bit of my comment was, and I should have made this more clear, said in semi-jest. Really, I think the bigger reason is the undercurrent of society just hasn’t been ideal for the left to really organize and much of the left has become complacent as some of the more obvious inequalities have become obscured from view.

It’s easy to take abortion for granted because it’s (sorta) legal. Racism/sexism/etc. is easier to ignore because it either is being done is less hamfisted ways or is being done to groups that are smaller, less visible, or just easier for people to dismiss. Pollution is easier to forget because fewer rivers, streams, and lakes are unnaturally colored and cities are less often choked by visible smog. These are the sorts of things that lead to people being complacent.