Analysis of Obama's State Of The Union Speech

This is the NYT editorial on the president's State Of The Union speech. The editorial is mostly favorable but Fox News and other propaganda sources devoted to shrinking the role of government will call it class warfare. The president has decided to run for reelection on this agenda. Perhaps if he can win the 2012 election, and the public supports his agenda enough to shed some the GOP advocates supported by the Tea Party, he will be able to make some progress with the agenda. It took the GOP 30 years to develop the public opinion and infrastructure necessary to serve the interests of the plutocracy. It will take a long time to build a more progressive America. We learned that lesson in the 2008 election. The democrats won a majority in Congress but it was unable to implement a progressive agenda.