Not often in life are political/social matters so easy to understand. And Progressives are the only force on this planet who are steadily building up the critical mass to MASSIVELY confront the elites.
Obama? Well, we all keep talking about how he should have his "hundred days", but in the meantime his appointee's take turns trashing liberals (more recently even with public profanity!), so if the hope meter has a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the will the American people), right now we're around a 2, because his "people" and his own remarks make it clear that this administration is going to be VERY far to the right of the people who elected him.
In short, basically elite puppet samo, samo?
So, question answered? Our non-progressive political system/prison is simply an army of puppets who are playthings of the elites.
However, as it was in the beginning, is now, but NOT ever shall be, because there is a social/political water table in this country (and the entire planet as well, most probably) made up of MILLIONS of citizens who are seething with patriotic outrage (and much Obama heartbreak), and if you DLC elite suck ups think you're going to discount us out of WHATEVER hardball aggressiveness we need to be legitimately represented in government and somehow put a candy ass "force field" around the elites, think again.
Because we ain't going anywhere and we WILL get representation and we're getting closer and closer to the social reality where the vampire elites can run, but they can't hide.
Compared to where we were, say, 4 to 8 years ago, we have been going ballistic into the land of political power. Keep ignoring us if you dare. When the rubber really hits the road, mostly it comes down to numbers, and like a stock that has split over and over again, we just keep growing and growing.
And what happens when the political system/prison government of a country passes that critical point where THE PEOPLE wake up that one or two percent (or even less!) of their country are the literal Gods and Goddesses (or Kings and Queens) of what used to be a Constitutional Republic? In short, what happens when they realize they are being systematically reduced to cattle or corpses by the elites?
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