His Presidency is teaching us something that might otherwise have slipped right past us.

Liberals have been so busy worrying about gay rights and the environment, women's issues and the black community, and health, consumer and labor affairs that they haven't noticed how the Corporate Right has been quietly mobilizing and organizing at the local and state level so they now increasingly control more local legislatures, governorships and House seats than the Liberals do, even though they actually get fewer voters. And by using the Electoral College, they have twice this century stolen the Presidency.

Progressives have been so concerned about civil rights that they have failed to see how the roadblocks and obstruction of the Right are increasingly dominating the political landscape by clever tactics and strategy. They can't get the votes so they're manipulating the process. Sure, the urban coastal regions outvote the rural heartland in national elections, but they SHOULD. That's where most of the fucking population lives! Rigging the system so the fly-over minority hangs on to power is not the American Way.

The "typical American" is no longer a small businessman in Kansas, its a single mother in Queens.