It leads us to the current point in history when "Yes We Can and "Change We Can Believe In has transformed into phrases like "Change is hard, "Change isn't supposed to be easy, and "Change doesn't happen overnight. Such phrases put a damper on all populism across America.
So, finally, the disappointment of Obama's first year is that several opportunities presented themselves for real change: health care reform could have been single payer, "financial reforms could have been created to include a worker's bill of rights, the PATRIOT Act and its expansions could have been repealed, the economic crisis of the time could have kickstarted a radical restructuring of our national economy in favor of Main Street not Wall Street, the bloated military budget could have been cut significantly so that more money could go toward education, jobs, housing, etc, foreign policy could have been created to end the wars in the Middle East, and much more could have been done to deal with the impending environmental destruction that will occur as a result of global warming.
All of these changes could have been put into motion, but these were deemed changes we were not to believe in.
Change we can believe in was never anything more than a
figment of our imagination, a largely undefined belief to keep us all in check
and allow for a president to tap in to the political energy and frustrations of
the time.
"Change is hard is
not an acceptable outlook for the future. "Yes we've failed" is much more appropriate for summing up the past year since Obama's election.
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