[Marxism] "going through the experience" of Obama disillusionment

[Louis Proyect]

Dbachmozart at aol.com wrote:
> No one on this list thinks of Obama as a savior for anyone but the US  ruling 
> class. But like it or not, tens of millions of Americans, especially  Black 
> Americans don't currently agree with us. Do we just shout louder at them  that 
> "Obama is a sellout!", or do we approach them with a respectful attitude  of 
> "based on his past statements, voting record and who his financial  supporters 
> and advisers are, we respectfully disagree with your enthusiasm, but  are open 
> to being proven wrong. Meanwhile, we should work together for getting  out of 
> Iraq and Afghanistan and hands off Iran, Pakistan and Venezuela". 

Why do we keep harping on what the tens of millions of Obama voters 
think of what we say. They have probably never heard of Counterpunch, 
Znet--let alone bloggers like me or Dennis Perrin.

The debate that is going on now involves the left, whether the 
self-identified Marxists like Carl Davidson that I am going after or the 
liberal bloggers that Dennis Perrin likes to twit.

In any case, the bloom is fading faster from the Obama rose quicker than 
anybody could have predicted. Instead of getting something like FDR's 
first hundred days, we are likely to get a continuation of what we have 
seen over the past year or so. The U.S. military will continue to 
slaughter Afghans. The Wall Street banks that financed Obama's campaign 
will get bailouts while people are thrown out of their houses or nursing 
homes. Thank god my mom passed on before she or I had to worry about 
Medicaid cuts.