Some Victories in the Recent US Mid-Term Elections

According to cable-news, talk-radio, and almost all mainstream news outlets, the US 2014 Mid-Term Elections were a referendum on Obama's "left" politics and a popular push to the right.  So why is the radical left not losing sleep over this electoral calamity?

Well, as with most things major news outlets tell you, it isn't really true.  Obama and the Democrats have no soft spot in our hearts being a pro-war and pro-corporation.  The electoral outcome of Republicans over Democrats or vice-versa amounts to a sibling rivalry between two incredibly similar bourgeois parties.

Some Big Victories for the Working Class and Poor

Ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage passed statewide in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, and city wide in San Francisco and Oakland.  Non-binding initiatives to increase the minimum wage passed in the state of Illinois and many Wisconsin counties.

On that same note, voters in Oregon and Washington DC chose to legalize marijuana, a blow to the decades long, racist drug war.