Progressives' Disconnect

After reading the Netroots blogs or listening to its voice one is baffled, bewildered and totally lost. The so-called progressives have invented their own parallel universe.

In that universe the country has two presidents. One is almost passive, naive and seems to live in a European salon of the beginning of the 20th century. This president, Obama, likes to discuss issues, avoids fights even intellectual ones. He is exceeding smart, based on rumors and legend, smooth and very cool. The other president is mixture of Bush and Cheney, it's Rahm. He manifests no intelligence whatsoever. He is restless and evil like Cheney. The two presidents co-exist although they seem to be unaware of each other. They clearly don't fight each other or coordinate actions and moves. One goes in one direction while the other goes in an orthogonal direction. It's kind of magical world.

Democrats also exist in two different universes. One is the corporate Democrats. This group of Democrats is working hand and hand with Wall Street, big Pharma, the health care insurance and the Military-Industrial complex. If those Democrats are in congress, they totally ignore the interests of their constituents. Such congress members are basically enslaved to the corporation for which they work. The other Democratic universe, a relatively small one, is inhabited by deeply committed progressive who spend their time working for the betterment of human kind. Sadly enough, the corporate Democrats overwhelm the honest, decent and hardworking Democrats. A mixture of the two types of Democrats doesn't seem to exist. Also, congress members who are progressive but still strongly support a state or district based corporation is an imaginary vision; there are no such individuals.

One of the latest disconnects pertains to the concept of corporation. In it, all corporations are complete evil that is in the process of taking over the government.Glen Greenwald saysthe bill ... reinforces and bolsters a radically corrupt and flawed insurance model and an even more corrupt and destructive model of "governing." It is a major step forward for the corporatist model, even a new innovation in propping it up. Where the bill refers to the health care reform. Once again, this view of the stronghold of the health care insurance companies is disconnected of the reality that insurance companies can provide the health care the public needs without making the enormous profit American high flying companies demand. For example, Switzerland and the Netherlands, in particular, have drawn attention for their use of individual mandates combined with public oversight of insurance markets. Once again we have a major pundit sees large companies as synonymous to CitiBank and J P Chase.

The list of contorted views goes on without end. When we go back in history, progressive pundits talk about the terrible days of the presidency of Bill Clinton. As opposed to the progressive Obama, Clinton was a reactionary. His eight years in office went through the agony of added 20 million new jobs, the poor were elevated (a real violation of the interests of the well off middle class who are Obama's backbone), no dead soldiers in the war in Bosnia and Kosovo, art flourished, etc. Bill Clinton was loved in Europe not because he came after a Bush; his Bush was a decent reasonable individual. He didn't employ racism to win his primary. But he still is the worst thing since Reagan. Just a minute, Obama thought the world of Reagan.