[lbo-talk] Why Obama doesn't suck

[Doug Henwood]

SA, questions at that level of abstraction - do you like compromise? - tap into "common sense" and inherited ideology. As that awful Alan Wolfe book showed long ago, the default instinct of the American middle class is to avoid conflict and split the difference (the popularity of Fox to the contrary). Still, the party that opposes compromise won a pretty big victory - mostly because it was the other choice, not because of any great support for their agenda. If you ask specific questions - do you want to cut Medicare to fund continued tax cuts for the rich? - you might get some answers that are different from what the guy that Bloomberg (who knows the field!) calls the most arrogant person he's ever met is doing.

Doug