12-30-2016, 03:42 PM
(12-30-2016, 01:59 PM)Bronsin Wrote:(12-30-2016, 01:55 PM)Odin Wrote:(12-30-2016, 01:06 PM)Bronsin Wrote: We are getting rid of the worst President in history right now.
We've always been at war with Eastasia, too, I hear!
Jeez, how brainwashed do you have to be by fake news and right-wing propaganda to think Obama is the worst US president ever...
How brainwashed do you have to be to think he's some kind of guiding light tuned into the upper frequency of the right word that no one else has access to? The only reason we aren't in WWIII right now is because the other world leaders have just been biding their time knowing that he will be out at the end of 8 years no matter who gets elected.
If you look at what are generally considered the three greatest Presidents (Washington, Lincoln, FDR), you will find that all three took over an America heavily rifted and in grave danger and left America much safer and more united. Barack Obama is clearly not in that category. Neither did he keep America out of a war that would have been crippling but seemed inevitable (America avoided getting enmeshed in the Napoleonic wars) as did Jefferson. Neither did he succeed in forcing unforeseen reforms sure to stick, as did Theodore Roosevelt. Unlike Truman he did not get to resolve some of the loose ends of a Crisis Era that a great President could not avoid leaving. Obama follows one of the worst Presidents that America, undid some of the damage, and snuffed out some real dangers to America. But he could not force lasting reforms upon America, and Donald Trump follows him. I have no idea what complicity he has in the rise of Donald Trump, but America was in far less danger in 2016 than in 2008.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.