Posted on 11/17/2019 8:26:37 AM PST by simpson96
Based on his speech, notice that he never says that the far-left ideas in question themselves stink to high heaven. It's not that socialism fails every time you try it. The only people he blames for this state of affairs is American voters. Americans just aren't quite progressive enough. They're not up for being "transformed," as Obama used to say.
He must know.
Obama counseled the leftists in his room that since Americans fall short, they need to start couching their radical plans as "improvements" in their "narratives."
In the interest of winning (and making that coveted Obama presidential endorsement actually worth something) Obama has now "transformed" himself into Mister Moderate. It's not just laughable in itself, it's also too little, too late. Toothpaste's out of the tube. The Dems are now welded to their radical far left plans and it would be very hard for any of them to do U-turns now. For Bernie Sanders, of course, that's congenitally impossible.
Gag.
It didn't go over well.
And better still, the rabid left is now mocking Obama to high heaven.
Here's what far-left Common Dreams had to say, first explaining out how it looks to leftists, and then curating its favorite tweets on Twitter:
After it was reported Friday that former U.S. President Barack Obama told a room full of "wealthy liberal" Democratic Party donors that voters ultimately won't go for candidates offering political visions he suggested were too ambitious and radical, progressives online reacted critically to Obama advising the party to sideline "certain left-leaning twitter feeds" and what he termed the "the activist wing of our party."
...and...
On Saturday, the hashtag #TooFarLeft was trending on Twitter.
Political operative Peter Daou, who took credit for launching the hashtag, said: "I launched the #TooFarLeft tag because I've had it with Republicans, media elites, and corporate Dems enabling fascists while denigrating those who seek economic and social justice as 'too far left.' I'd like to ONCE hear them complain America is too far right."
And so, a brief sample of reactions:
Such as:
TOO. FAR. LEFT.
I launched the #TooFarLeft tag because I've had it with Republicans, media elites, and corporate Dems enabling fascists while denigrating those who seek economic and social justice as "too far left."
I'd like to ONCE hear them complain America is too far right.
Peter Daou ✔ @peterdaou TOO. FAR. LEFT.
I launched the #TooFarLeft tag because I've had it with Republicans, media elites, and corporate Dems enabling fascists while denigrating those who seek economic and social justice as "too far left."
I'd like to ONCE hear them complain America is too far right.
7,060 11:54 AM - Nov 16, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,951 people are talking about this A bitter, touchy, sensitive bunch, aren't they? Winning elections isn't a thing for them, just proving one's far-left bonafides to the other lefties is what matters.
Daily Caller picked out another passel of choice tweets from the radicals angry at Obama, such as this:
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, for instance, told her Twitter followers Saturday that “if being #TooFarLeft means” believing “healthcare is a human right”and “all student debt should be canceled,” then “count me in.” Climate change activists also weighed in.
Oh goody. Now she'll have to reassure her voters once again that she "loves" Obama. It happened once before. Something says that's not happening, not now with this pile-on.
What it shows is that any bid to even delicately steer the left in a winnable direction gets met with brickbats from the fanatics. They'll actually go against Obama himself, which up until now has been unheard of. No wonder Obama has always been afraid of them, afraid to go Sistah Souljah, except in the face of a certain train wreck. Yet if he wants results, the only way to get their attention is to launch a full-on attack of them, which he won't do. Any tiptoe delicate criticism blaming American voters is as good as it gets. Now even that has led to this reviling. It's pathetic, given that Obama has no other fans to look to.
My reaction, too. He's as left (and racist and pro-LGBT) as anyone. He just differs on tactics. "Now is not the time," he counsels.
“Democrats to not try to tear down society in revolutionary fervor, because America’s just not ready for it. “
So, presumably at some point in the future america will be ready for our society to be torn down?
But the average American doesn’t think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it.
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Now that Obama is extremely wealthy and enjoys the best of everything the thought of societal upheaval is not so appealing anymore. Being rich is good.
Obviously seeing a train wreck in the Democrats’ future>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
As do many others , looking now for alternate non leftist presidential candidates in a flurry of political onanism.
We are helping them create that train wreck. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
Well, let’s not get in their way. Just stand back and savor the moment.
He’s tellin’ ‘em how to do it - lie like hell about being a centrist until you get elected and then you can do whatever you want - but the dumbchits are too stupid to hear.
If there is a train wreck coming, it’s not being evidenced by last nite’s LA election or VA’s election. Lefties are still being elected which tells me that there are a substantial number of voters that are voting democrat even after all the insanity that party has displayed and by extension, those voters ARE ready for our society to be overthrown.
I have been waiting for the BS triangulation move to start. The problem is the rat base. MSM is doing it’s best do steer the primary direction toward the usual moderation masquerade because they know in a National Election you still have wear the mask of reason because of the Electoral College. So they keep Joe alive because he at least knows you still have to pretend. Obongo is as far left as any of these fools but this shows he still knows what is possible and what is not. His end game is unclear. Maybe he sees a brokered convention which I doubt. It is more likely he has a rescue candidate in mind because he doesn’t think Joe can pull it off.
I’m sure odungo thinks of the new batch of commis as the jv team.
The Radical Left: Dems can’t win without them, but can’t win by pushing their ideas either.
Obama managed to bridge the gap but the left wing has gone further left since then. Sweet.
Foodfight!
“What am I Now?,,,
A Zit!”
The corrupt GOP has learned nothing and is obviously waiting out the Trump Presidency.
“TOO FAR LEFT” appears in this context to mean NOT FAR LEFT ENOUGH.
Well if they overthrow our country through the ballot box, we still have the bullet box. I am not worried at all.
Exactly. He did not say don’t tear down American. Just don’t talk about it so openly.
Turns out that Michael Moore was right six months ago, when he said the new leader of the Democrat Party is not Nancy Pelosi, but AOC.
Even Nancy came to concede that her power base has shrunk and withered, while Alexandria and her squad of harridans have become far more influential than any group of freshman congresswomen have even been before. So she allows the impeachment fetish to fester, inflate and distract.
Nancy can keep her Gucci wardrobe, her face time on camera, and keep delivering more anti-Trump speeches, while The Squad develops more sympathy for lawbreakers, more anti-semitic policy, more fragmentation of the party.
The most evil administration in the history of this glorious republic. Clinton, Obams, Biden. et al.
Hey Bitter Clingers...here’s POS Barry (belongs on a sidewalk in Frisco)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqyY6ax3hc0
Overton window shattered...criminals coming in ALERT!
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