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Obama put the left to sleep. Ironically Trump will probably be the best possible outcome for civil liberties as people will actually fight him.
by cmdrfred 10y ago
Obama put the left to sleep. Ironically Trump will probably be the best possible outcome for civil liberties as people will actually fight him.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI hope you're right. I fear that they will continue to sleep.
- 3131s 10y ago> Obama put the left to sleep I agree with this 100%. Suddenly people care about mass deportation, for example, but where were they when Obama was deporting a record 2.5 million people? They are terrified of Trump's "deportation force", not realizing apparently that many such deportation forces (e.g. ICE) already exist. Some things that the left should have cared about under Obama: * initiating new undeclared wars * expanding the surveillance state * eliminating habeas corpus with the 2012 NDAA * killing two American citizens extra-judicially * fracking * selling arms to radicals and brutal foreign regimes * the Honduran coup * CIA black sites / torture (forced rectal 'feeding' to the point of rectal prolapse, for example) * prosecuting whistleblowers * raiding legal dispensaries / grow ops and wholesale continuing the ludicrous war on drugs * pro-corporate policies like the TPP, ACA, and the bailouts * running up the national debt another 10 trillion or so * contracting out development of astroturfing software from HBGary / Operation Earnest Voice I could go on. The real left barely exists anymore in America.
- amckinlay 10y agoIs that the same NDAA that gives the military law enforcement powers?