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In reply to the discussion: The Dumpster Fire of Obama's Moral Authority [View all]Akira Watts
(53 posts)Well sign me up for the latter camp. This neoliberalism that Obama peddles with soaring rhetoric doesn't work. It didn't much work under Clinton, either, save for the fact that our economy was in better shape and the country could pretend to occupy of moral high ground in international affairs.
It's not nihilism to say this isn't working. Nor is it nihilism to call Obama a crushing disappointment (he's also one of the better presidents of the past hundred years, but that's a low bar - if there's one thing America is good at, it's ejecting godawful presidents). There's fuck all in terms of past progress to build on, given how thoroughly this pathological neoliberal impulse to compromise with imbeciles has torn things down.
Burn it all to the ground and start again.