Obama has been governing from the center since he has been elected. His problem is that the Republicans have been captured by the radical far right that refuses any compromise
And IF he get re-elected, we still won't compromise. I for one am determined to fight this out with liberals to the bitter end, if that's 2016 or beyond. We can keep at this, until one side or the other breaks. From where I sit, ANY compromise whatever with the Left is useless anyway; we are NEVER going to agree, you want to destroy us, and we want to destroy you. I'm a VERY patient man, when it comes to that goal.
That is the way it has to go. There is not a point left on which liberals and conservatives could compromise.
No, there is not. Years of partisan hatred and negative campaigning have seen to that. Both sides have done it, and now, it makes no more difference who started it, than it does who fired the first shot on Lexington Green. So liberals can understand, Obama is to conservatives what Bush was to you; an embodiment of an ideology we despise. To us, he's nothing more nor less that a younger, slick-talking version of John Kerry, a made-for-mass media, empty suit, and a triumph of style over substance; intellectually and politically arrogant to a fault, without respect for flag, country or our Armed Forces. In addition, he publicly articulated what most of you think; he called us "the enemy".
Very well, then; enemies we are. Reality is, that politics in this country has degenerated into little more than war by political means. In addition to the factors I mentioned earlier, America has become in the last half century a nation of competing interests; small town and rural America has exactly zero common interest with big city, urban America, and suburban America has little to no common interest with either. As if that weren't enough, we have a class war between the haves and the have nots, and a cultural war between religious and social conservatives, and secular social liberal, and we have ongoing ethnic tension from the leftover hard feelings of the civil rights struggle. That has been, all of it, a fertile ground for wedge-issue politics. This last is aimed at arousing each side's worst emotional instincts, and in that it has succeeded, beyond what anyone could have dreamed. That's the political landscape today, a wasteland of hatred; and you seriously expect to put THAT back n the bottle? It's not going to happen.
In the end, whichever side wins this election, it may well be a hollow victory. The winner will inherit a bitterly divided country; the loser, will keep on fighting, even more embittered. The odds are that no matter which side gets the White House, partisan gridlock will remain; I do not see anyone on the horizon, from either party, who the nation can unite behind. We have no statesmen left, on either side; a media driven process like we have today is too shallow for true statesmen to take root and grow in. There's not going to be any more good will, when this election is over, than there is now, and that's the plain, ugly truth.
