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July 18th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Obama the Centrist – Radicals do not get through the primaries in this country. It costs a massive amount of money to run for office and radicals don’t have the bank accounts to put up candidates. There are very few left wing radicals holding national public office. Read progressive literature like Mother Jones, The Progressive and the Nation and then see if there are any candidates that push the agenda of the left. Trust me, there are not. Many of my more left leaning friends want a strong Green Party and hold their nose and vote for mainstream Democrat candidates because they don’t want to give the race away to Republicans.
To those of us on the left, Obama looks very centrist. We wanted more of a single payer type health like much of the industrialized world already has. We wanted much stronger financial legislation than was passed. We wanted Guantanamo closed, oppose predator drones blowing up civilians, can’t understand why Obama hasn’t gotten rid of "don’t ask, don’t tell" when most of the military is ready to move on. But in each case Obama has calculated what is doable, not what the left wants. That is the only way things can get done right now in a country so ideologically divided.
Maybe this is why Obama looks so radical to people. The Democrats are divided, but the centrists still hold the power in the party. The Republicans are divided, but the right wing is more dominant and moderate Republicans are nearly gone. There are few moderating voices left in the Republican party who try to explain to the right wing that this is a big country with a lot of diverse people and you have to make some compromises and try to understand different points of view. In the Democrat party, there are more moderate voices telling the left wing to hang on and accept gradual change. Right now any change back to the center looks radical since Bush shoved things well to the right. Much of the country has forgotten what the left or even the center look like.