• darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Don’t forget about keeping open the extrajudicial indefinite detention and torture prison.

    Obama was such a fucking disappointment. After 8 years of Bush it looked like we were getting change and then he just kept things the same. He probably contributed more to my movement leftward than Bernie did.

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      2 days ago

      Good point, he promised to close it when he was campaigning, but he just couldn’t do it for some reason once he was in office.

      Obama won overwhelmingly by campaigning as a progressive, then governed as a centrist, and 8 years later, voters abandoned the party. Somehow, the establishment’s takeaway from that was, “we need to be less progressive.”