Good Thing We Beat The Republicans, Right?

I mean, they wanted to keep destroying the environment whilst chanting “drill, baby, drill”, give the finger to labor, escalate wars, keep suspects locked away in Guantanamo, stay in Iraq, use government to help business at the expense of its citizens, and enforce discrimination against gays. You have to keep voting for the Democrats to avoid that shit, am I right guys?

If you’re a Democratic apologist who hates the idea of voting for a third party as part of a longterm  strategy to make actual reforms that benefit people instead of business, I would hope that Obama’s current track record is really making you second guess this opinion. The common argument is that, ‘sure, the Democrats aren’t great, but the Republicans are much worse! Not voting Democrat only empowers the GOP.’ But no, the Democrats are doing a good enough job of empowering the GOP themselves:

• We have news today that President Obama has reversed a ban on oil drilling off U.S. shores that, when trying to become president, he was thoroughly against. A procedure that was embodied in Sarah Palin’s exclamation, “Drill, Baby, Drill!”
• Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced this morning that “Cap and Trade” is dead and that future climate legislation will no longer use this concept. If Healthcare Reform is any indication, it will be crafted in such a way to empower polluting industries.
• Obama’s Department of Justice continues to defend the legitimacy of DADT, despite the President’s enthusiasm for speaking out against it. A policy that he loves to speak out against and could end with the flick of his pen, remains in use and is defended and enforced by his administration.

That’s just this week alone. We are sending tens of thousands of more troops to fight a needless unjust war in Afghanistan, our “exit strategy” in Iraq is Orwellian doublethink, we kill hundreds of civilians in a not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan, the EFCA is dead in the water, Guantanamo Bay’s detention camp remains open, and in 2014 we’ll all be mandated customers of private insurance companies. Ask yourselves, progressive Democrats, what are you getting out of this arrangement? You say that Republicans would be worse, but Obama is doing everything he can to enact McCain’s campaign promises and empower GOP ideas.