overhaul the status quo already

You know
De­moc­rats adopt­ing a “Tea Par­ty men­tal­i­ty” is lit­er­al­ly un­ten­able at this point, Mr. President. 

Your ‘warn­ing’ is wild­ly con­de­scend­ing and lit­tle more than a veiled at­tempt to dele­git­imize the very real con­cerns of the dis­en­fran­chised in the coun­try rep­re­sent­ed by Bernie. 

Not to mention
the un­der­ly­ing the­sis that you’re butt hurt be­cause peo­ple have right­ly felt be­trayed by the in­con­sis­ten­cy be­tween the evan­ge­lism of your cam­paign and the na­ture of your Presidency.

Now
you may not have the trag­ic ig­no­rance and sil­ver spoon gump­tion of your pre­de­ces­sor but still,
            your for­eign pol­i­cy has been a disaster,
            the eco­nom­ic ‘growth’ has only ben­e­fit­ted the wealth­i­est among us,
            the health­care re­form was a give­away to the health in­sur­ance companies,
and though, I will ac­knowl­edge some pos­i­tive momentum,
but if we’re be­ing honest,
how much of that progress has been pro­pelled by the zeit­geist and was not nec­es­sar­i­ly a re­flec­tion of the ef­fi­ca­cy of your guid­ing po­lit­i­cal ideology?

Now
un­like many of the dis­ap­point­ed Lib­er­als, I read your bi­og­ra­phy and the mo­ment I saw the words “in­spired by Clin­ton’s third way” I knew you would only bring a ne­olib­er­al­ist half-mea­sure to the over­haul of the sta­tus quo we so des­per­ate­ly need.

So
you’ll for­give me if I don’t cow­er un­der the threat of the Right wing boo­gie­man when it is the the­o­ret­i­cal un­der­cur­rent in­form­ing your eco­nom­ic values.

The thing is
it’s al­ways easy to sit in your ivory tow­er and de­clare “let them eat cake” when the peas­ants are starv­ing in the streets, but to dis­miss the le­git­i­mate calls of the Left for po­lit­i­cal re­form as the same mis­guid­ed dog­ma­tism as the con­trar­i­an, back­ward-lean­ing, ty­coon-spon­sored Tea Par­ty is wild­ly un­der­es­ti­mat­ing how deeply your ver­sion of democ­ra­cy has failed the work­ing peo­ple of this country.

So no, POTUS
even in the face of the best ef­forts of the har­bin­gers of the hide­bound, the nec­es­sary un­com­pro­mis­ing im­per­a­tive of the Left will not bar­rel us to­ward some omi­nous fate of di­vi­sion and ob­struc­tion­ism be­cause frankly, I have news for you, that is what your lega­cy of ‘co­op­er­a­tion’ has been.
 

—na­tal­ie michelle

Flom­mist Na­tal­ie Michelle does­n’t have a bio. She just rants. Copy­right © 2016 Na­tal­ie Michelle. Pho­to: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Im­ages.

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