Obama pandered to Chamber of Commerce, refused to meet social nonprofits
Channel: Jason Zenith
Date: 2019-10-26

Barack Obama Pandered to the arch reactionary U.S. Chamber of Commerce While Giving the Back of His Hand to Progressives.

Ralph Nader here is talking to Juan Gonzalez on the program "Democracy Now!" The Obama regime treated Nader like an annoying insect to be ignored and finally brushed off. Unlike Obama, Nader actually made a positive difference in the lives of millions of people and is responsible for actual progress in U.S. society, such as in the areas of car safety and pollution control.

Barack Obama didn't have time in 8 years to walk two blocks to meet with socially progressive groups. He DID have time to review an assassination list and decide who to have murdered EVERY SINGLE WEEK of his presidential reign.

Obama's behavior and utter contempt for progressives is symptomatic of the Democratic Party's attitude to millions of people it shepherds every election year into polling booths to keep itself in power. The Democratic Party treats its voters like an abusive male treats "his" woman. The groups that support the party; African-Americans, labor unions, environmentalists, people who are pro-abortion rights, all are abused by the Democrats. The Democrats, especially the Clintons and Joe Biden, played key roles in the conspiracy to imprison huge numbers of the black population. Democrats helped pass the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, overriding the veto of their own president (Truman), a law that to this day cripples labor organizing. In the 74 years since, the Democrats have had plenty of opportunities to repeal this repressive law, and have never done so. Yet labor unions continue to blindly support that enemy party. On the environment the Democrats are weak regulators. They have done next to nothing to defend the right to abortion, allowing the Republicans to whittle it down to almost nothing in large swaths of the country and helping stack the Federal judiciary with reactionaries with lifetime appointments.

The Democrats under Obama crushed the Occupy Movement and even helped the GOP wipe out ACORN, which registered voters who skewed Democratic!

This is the opposite of how the Republican Party treats the voters it relies on: the gun fetishists, the religious reactionaries, the anti-abortion fanatics, the hyper-nationalists, the Tea Party movement. The GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) makes sure to pander to their every whim. Republicans deemed insufficiently reactionary are supplanted in primaries by true fanatics. The Democratic Party is fighting tooth and nail to prevent insurgent progressives from winning elections, and have been mostly successful, notwithstanding the current quartet of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna S. Pressley.

This is from Part 2 of a May 1, 2015 interview, "Ralph Nader on Bernie Sanders, Corporate Control of the White House & the U.S. Drone War," 

https://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/pt_2_ralph_nader_on_bernie