Via the Pragmatic Progressive: Liberal Juxtaposition and the Obama Presidency

The current state of the American left is stuck in two camps. One that makes little to no difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush, and the other that does. The former is constantly threatening to not vote for Democrats if they don’t get what they want, the latter desperately tries to convince them why that defeats the purpose.

The chorus from the “professional left” has been a steady drone of fund raising for their respective groups and threats of boycotting the President’s reelection. I use the term professional left because I honestly believe many of them are more concerned with making money than championing liberal causes. It’s the only conclusion I can come to when normally reasonable people cling to the tiniest inclination of a rumor without the slightest substantiation and proceed to lose their minds or worse, exploit the situation by hyperventilating.

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