It’s been interesting listening to progressives these last several weeks as Obama-san announced his Afghan Surge while receiving the Nobel Peace Prize then swooped back to Europe a week later to ‘save’ the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, all while the Senate wrapped up its debate on health care to pass a reform bill which sent insurance company stocks through the roof. Most of the people on the far left had reservations about Obama-san from the beginning, knowing he was not an actual progressive, but a centrist with liberal leanings. Still, coming out of the nearly decade long John Wayne theme park ride that was Saint George, there was an inescapable hope in the social justice camp that change was really coming.

The encouraging bit has been watching the left re-gird itself and prepare to struggle as fiercely now in the face of Democratic flavored Corporatocracy as it did against the tarter Republican version.