1/ Once a president is elected, no matter how much you like him or her or how much good they’re doing, the job of citizenship is to continually add your voice to those the president hears within the culture. That’s a serious course correction needed, particularly among Democrats.
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2/ A big mistake we made with Obama was that we liked him so much, once he got in office we let things unfold without decrying the increasingly corporatist direction he was taking. The institutional pull on a prez once in office is extraordinary & our voices need to remain strong

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3/ When a president does something we like it’s a reason to acknowledge it; when an administration is taken a direction we don’t like or we want something else, it’s a reason to say so. That isn’t being negative; it’s being a citizen.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You are just like Trump rage tweeting all the time without the nastiness.
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Obama overall was an excellent leader.
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Presidents have a large amount of pressure from Powerful Special Interests. We need to counterbalance that pressure.
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Some of us did decry, it just fell on dead ears bc Obama's is a cult of personality which was perpetuated by the media. Its all still there. AOC and The Squad are also insulated from criticism. Democrats will jump behind Patriot Act type policies so long as its them pushing them.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Indeed, and yes. Agreed. I've made this same argument. Obama clearly went corporatist, though most democrats don't understand how. Many regulations are designed to help corporations. I can list a few in WA and how it blocked out Tmobile and new internet markets.
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The issue here then is actually tribalism. Democrats do need to hold their leaders accountable, and this means every now and again supporting republican leaders. And republicans need to do this same thing. Obama had some good public funding measures. Trump had some good
Replying to @marwilliamson
Regulations that assisted with the economy. He approved the Tmobile merger, and finally, as promised, Tmobile sold their $50 internet in underserviced markets like WA where internet was 170 per month, just to fund WA $500 million in initial fees, charging 40 billion more to poor
Replying to @marwilliamson
There is more to this than just either republican or democrat. In other words. I can agree with portions of your posts.