February 28, 2010 06:49 PM UTC

So what exactly has "Changed"?

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• by: cologeek

Here we are, just over a year since Democrats took virtually total power in the Federal government, and what has changed about those issues that they were screaming about running up to the election?

We still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but strangely, you don’t have the protesters, both in the real world and here online, that were vehement in their opposition to the wars anymore.  

There was a regular weekend protest downtown here in Colorado Springs at Acacia Park.  Rain, shine, or snow these few hardy souls were standing out there with their signs and banners.  And you could find hand made signs hanging on utility poles all over town.  No more, they are gone.

The Daily Kos was founded, at least in part, as an anti-war site.  But now you have postings like this where civilian deaths are called “justifiable” and the Afghan government is chastised for complaining about them.

The members of the current administration were adamant in their opposition to the war in Iraq.  They declared it a failure, and that nothing good would come of it.  Now they want to claim credit for the victory.

There was a universal outcry on the left about the passage of the Patriot Act.  There is hardly a cricket chirping over its renewal.

What exactly has “changed”?