Some of my liberal comrades will probably enjoy this infographic, but It needs and deserves a riposte.

Let’s not forget that Obama and the DNC sat on their asses for Wisconsin and let the working-class hang out to dry. Quite frankly, Labor should do the same to the world’s second most enthusiastic capitalist political party. The working-class should forge its own political destiny and actually seek state power instead of squabbling with capitalists over vacation days and pensions. What unions fight for are undoubtedly important, but crude economism misses the forest from the trees and dooms the working class to subservience.

Case in point being that liberal savior-in-chief President Obama now wants to grant to corporations shocking endowments of extraordinary new political powers under the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Under this deal minimum wage laws, occupational safety mandates, environmental protections, banking and finance regulations, could all be swept away at the whim and request of multinational corporations if they consider them too “anti-business”. It bears mentioning that Mitt Romney and the US Chamber of Commerce are totally behind Obama in this NAFTA of the Pacific. Two sides of the same coin…

When infographics like this come out, Liberals can choose to allow themselves wowed and distracted by the cynical, calculated overtures about equal marriage rights or immigration reform. These are the political equivalent of shiny jingly keys dangled before liberals after years of inaction or outright capitulation to the right. But we’d be more honest with ourselves if we keep in mind that this guy isn’t really looking out for any of us and there’s very little daylight between the two candidates. Obama will not appoint liberals or leftists to the Court and we all on the left need to disabuse ourselves of that fantasy.

And to the “lesser evil” unthinking, orthodox Democrats, no one left-of-center thinks Romney shouldn’t be elected president; but don’t be so morally bankrupt and intellectually empty as to act as though Obama actually deserves re-election. In any case, anyone who believes Obama is working in the interests of the working-class is a fool or hasn’t been paying attention.