Re-manifesto

I admit that I somewhat fell victim to post-George W. Bush syndrome, in that I no longer felt so passionately disgusted with the actions of the executive branch and the enablement thereof by the House and Senate. I was not so foolish as to think that President Obama would come around and save the day by being some liberal-progressive hero, as he never made any such assertions that he would be during his campaign (although he did imply that financial bailouts should go from the bottom-up, not the other way around). It was plain to see that he would be another corporatist, main stream Democrat, yet I guess I held out some hope that his presidency would be as bold as his campaign was. I didn’t think this was a terribly likely scenario, but goddamn it, I had hope! I suppose my level of hope has diminished to the degree that I feel the need to start writing again, for sadly I am not a sunshiny, flowery writer, I am one of doom and gloom – a Morrissey of political commentary, if you will. So away we go again into the depths of my general and continued disappointment with the realpolitik that has come to define the American political landscape.