Just belatedly discovered Freddie deBoer's post from last January.  It's lengthy, but includes a lot of good stuff about the absence of any truly left-wing viewpoint in our discourse.  Being new to his blog, I looked at some of his recent posts and found this one, stating his basic political creed, to be excellent.  In particular, I enjoyed this:

Can anyone claim that the Obama administration has done anything whatsoever to advance my interests? Not a day goes by where I argue politics online without some Obama supporter hurling invective at me and insisting that I have no choice, that if I refuse to vote for Obama I am in essence voting for Michelle Bachmann, that it's a two party system and I should just take it and like it, or, most absurdly, that he secretly is pursuing my agenda and I'm just too stupid to read the tea leaves and SEE.