Then to sum up in traditional rhetoric. The seriously flawed liberal idea that you can work with business to help ameliorate the vast inequalities and injustices of society is shared by liberals like Widner, and Obama. Meanwhile they like the Clintons, provide the illusion of social progress towards a more just and equal society. This is precisely why and how Obama and the Clintons get such solid capital support. This is neo-liberalism's pretense of bringing `democracy' to the world. This pretense or propaganda is popular, because without it, then most positively engaged people would have to face the horrible fact that business and the economy itself is the real problem---the whole vast corporate-governmental system of capital needs a radical overhaul.
So the above goes, I hope toward answering why:
``This isn't that subtle a point! Why is it so easily lost?''
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This definitely takes us closer to the heart of things.
Even so, I suspect - or fear, is more like it - that the debate will be obscured, like a lonely planetary system hidden in a vast nebula, by the distracting argument of 'hope' vs. 'truth'.
That is, weeks from now, list stragglers and slow email readers will still be reacting to the "Dennis Perrin on..." post within a predictable spectrum: this will range from support for dissections of Obama-mania to dramatic and morally outraged shock that "The Left" (that phantom sparring partner of fat-kidneyed coxcombs) isn't excited about this historic moment.
No doubt, "circular firing squad" references will be slathered on as thick as icing on a supermarket sold birthday cake.
.d.