08-31-2016, 12:02 PM
(08-30-2016, 10:40 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-30-2016, 11:59 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:Presidents shouldn't make promises to one group while supposedly representing the interests of another group and then push through legislation that favors one group over the other group that supported him. Hilary will either need to try and offset the imbalance within her party or accept losing the balk of the future middle class to the Republicans.(08-29-2016, 11:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-29-2016, 10:42 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:He got politically slapped, retreated back to his room and remained there for six more years.(08-29-2016, 10:11 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What do you expect when the Robber Barons have the Democrats eating from their hands? You didn't actually believe that Obama was rugged enough to take on the rich.
Obama took them on as far as the Republicans and current ideology would allow him to.
Democrats eating from the hands of robber barons? I think you'd find if you looked that Republicans eat a lot more from their hands. But Democrats eat some too, it's true. The answer is to take money out of politics. Given that, the fact that all justices who voted for the Citizens United decision were Republican appointees, and all all who voted against it were Democratic appointees, and the fact that Democrats support reform and Republicans oppose it, should tell you all anyone needs to know about who's who in this regard.
That was his only option. When the people refuse to come out to vote, or vote for a congress determined to resist you fanatically and shut down the government, there's not a whole lot that even a president with an 18-3 candidate-horoscope score can do. Or even 19-2 with Jupiter rising! (Bill Clinton, shut down in Nov.1994). The people need to support the president through his/her term if they hope for any results from electing him or her. That's how our system works, but lots of people don't seem to understand that. They think you can just elect a president and that's all you need to do for four years, and then you can blame everything on him or her. What rubbish!
I think we need a parliamentary system. In that system, it's easier to understand. You vote for your legislature representative, and that's it. If your party doesn't get a majority, then it doesn't get its leader elected for the country. All democracies except ours, the first one, have this system; even the one we set up in our own colony of Iraq in 2003. Our early form of a democratic system is long outdated.
Hillary's policies will favor both the poor/ethnic minorities and the middle class, and their interests mostly coincide. They benefit from Democratic Party policies, while the Republican Party's policies of hurting both groups favor only the rich.