Obama has made it clear that, for the most part, his administration isn’t seriously interested in deploying this massive grass-roots list – which was once heralded as a force that could reshape politics as we know it – to fight for sweeping legislative change. It’s a shame.
On the contrary, it was probably quite deliberate and planned that way. Obama cynically used a highly enthusiastic mailing list of 13 million supporters and once elected, ignored them and has mostly done the bidding of Wall Street instead.