Fear of the Republicans, Songwronger. That is what drives many here to support...or overlook...some of the things Obama is doing. It is their intense fear that he will be replaced by another Republican administration, so they feel they MUST support him no matter what!

That's how the old 2-Party gambit works. You scare the hell out of each half of the American public by making them fear that the guy whom the other half is supporting will get elected...at any given time.

It works great too, because those frightened people get on Internet forums and foam away at each other over their partisan fears and the great imperial machine rolls merrily on, no matter which party gets elected.

This may be partly why the Soviet Union collapsed. They didn't have the wit to split their monolithic One-party system into 2 separate and officially opposed Communist parties! .....a "liberal" Communist party and a "conservative" Communist party....and they could have done so! If they had, they could have perpetually turned the anger of the Russian people on each other over the 2-party divide, and they might well still be in power, but with only ONE MONOLITHIC Politburo in place, the people's anger turned on that monolith...and they brought it down.

This doesn't change the fact that there really were liberal Russian Coummunists and conservative Russian Communists, but like I say: they didn't make it into an official 2-party divide. If they had, they could have played one half of the Russian public against the other half just like it's done with Republicans and Democrats in the USA...and no one could have accused them of NOT having "democratic" elections either!

What you have in the USA is two Capitalist parties. They look so alike to the rest of the world, once in office, that it's laughable...but the choice between them supposedly guarantees "democracy". Ha! A good joke, that.