Democratic activists continue to operate as if policy doesn't matter to voters.... And under Obama, stuff has gotten worse. Obama's economic policies have made economic inequality sharper than it was under Bush, due to his bailout of banks and concurrent elimination of the main source of wealth of most Americans, home equity. With these policy choices, Obama destroyed the Democratic Party and liberalism – under Obama's first two years, the fastest growing demographic party label was "former Democrat"....

Obama has largely insulated himself from the consequences of his policies, so far, with a strong and aggressive PR campaign that has kept his approval ratings high enough to potentially win in 2012. This PR campaign blames everyone else for policy failures, from Democrats in Congress to Republicans in Congress to the Eurozone....At this point, the Democratic Party is hopelessly broken and overrun by the same interests that are running the Republican Party.