Presidential election, 2016

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-30-2016, 12:33 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You've already lost the majority of the country. If the country were to split, how much of the country would you have left? The majority of the country wants its independence back. The majority of the country voted to retain its national sovereignty.

From FDR through LBJ, from the New Deal through the Great Society, there was a relatively constant Democratic control.  These were the days when America was great, the days of tax and spend liberalism.  From Nixon to Trump, through the unravelling, we have had a swinging pendulum.  After a few years of either party, the country gets disgusted enough to hand the presidency back to the other party.

I'm not denying the real disgust.  The Democrats have a persistent habit of pushing too many urban solutions on the rural population.  If they don't learn from what just happened, should they get the presidency back in another four or eight years, they will lose it again if they don't start serving the needs of the whole country rather than push the supposed urban cultural superiority.

But Republican borrow and spend trickle down is apt to crash the economy again.  If the Republicans can't correct their economic policies, they are apt to lose the presidency.  If the Republicans can't stop making their usual mistake, they will give the Democrats the opportunity to make their usual mistake.

There is more to it than that, but I'm not seeing the basic situation changing.  If these boards are a reflection of the country, I'm seeing Taramarie as about the only person with me in seeing the extreme partisan divide as the core problem.  The board, like the country, is locked into screaming extreme partisanship while refusing to listen.

But then, I don't anticipate that you are listening.  Trump isn't the typical politician.  He might break the pattern.  We will have to see.