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Originally Posted by Itse
Obama didn't go on a moral crusade either. He portrayed himself as "the adult in the room" (as Jon Stewart described him). He's pretty much the poster-boy for the modern mainstream left. Extremely centrist, get smart guys to find cost-effective solutions, F morality. (As was most evident with the drone-bombing campaign.)
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And his pragmatism left many in the American left deeply disenchanted.
I get that simplistic dogmatism has always been attractive to both left and right. But as someone who takes a more utilitarian and liberal approach to public policy, I used to find I was more compatible with the left than the right. That is no longer true. The left changed and left me with no political home.