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Big "somebody has to do something!!" energy, Obama. You had the perfect opportunity to abolish ICE and repeal the post-9/11 acts to prevent this from happening.
You fucking taught constitutional law. You know that DHS and ICE and CBP were given carte blanche to violate the constitution. Don't tell me that you never had discussions on this, that there were never any debates, that you never read any articles or marked any papers on this.
You fucking knew, you had the most powerful mandate for implementing
in recent politics.
You did nothing. You let this whole thing play out and you did nothing.
Now you're really seeing those chickens start to hatch and you're standing by the sidelines wringing your hands and calling for action. The absolute gall to do such a thing.
Utterly spineless, zero accountability, and issuing bullshit performative strongly-worded statements? Yep. No wonder this guy is looked upon as a hero by progressives.
I was a big time lib back in 2008 so I actually drank the Kool-Aid. I believed him and I believed in him. I actually took is his fucking "Change" mantra seriously.
You're here now and you know better. They're never getting that genie back in the bottle.
Obama thoroughly poisoned the well when it comes for hope of any positive change amongst progressives and it was absolutely a slow-burn radicalising period for a lot of people. This created a perfect opportunity to agitate amongst disaffected progressives and I'd argue that it's part of the backdrop of why the Dems can no longer mobilize their own fucking voterbase to prevent Trump from getting into office a second time despite knowing exactly how bad he is (!!!) There's a collapse in the Democratic party and they all know it. They sold their voterbase on a lie and burned so many people. Now they can invite people to a ceremony for the Fell For It Again awards, which doesn't get nearly as much traction, or they can run a "nothing will fundamentally change" candidate, which doesn't get nearly as much traction either.
They really stripped the copper out of the walls to sell for ~~scrap~~ votes and now, a decade later, they are wondering why nothing happens when they flick the light switch on.
When you think about it, isn't this the real change we can believe in?