A Progressive Mandate

The Republicans and most of the mainstream media already are spinning the election as an affirmation of the same status quo, requiring a bipartisan consensus to avoid the fiscal cliff. This is a conservative self-serving spin. The election was a tremendous mandate for the incumbent president, given the depressing level of unemployment, a galvanizing win for Senate progressives, and a shattering blow to the Tea Party, the Christian Right, the Voter Suppression teams, along with the billionaires and their One Percent brethren.