Do you know the history of the democrats since 1960? I am 70 years old and I know It was Kennedy and then Johnson that earned me a trip to vietnam as infantry. At that time the enemy was communism not the republicans. Both sides of the aisle supported the war and kept it going. The two parties were not that far apart and did not regularly fight in public. They were mostly civil because they had different ideas but the members of the same country and both sides worked together for the sake of the country.
And then the Civil Rights era began in the 70's and all the Wealthy White Heterosexual Males Only politicians dreamed up the
Southern Strategy and they decided to keep their power they would become Republicans and only focus on legislating for their one demographic and troll everything else as some sort of 'ism'. Then under Reagan the legislation to allow hate radio and political agenda news allowed them to create a 'right' bubble with cherry picked statistics to scare their voters into hating the other side using whatever means they can.
Since that time our country has had numerous crappy presidents of both parties that have pushed the country apart. We had Nixon who was caught lying, clinton caught lying, the old bush caught lying about taxes. We are electing the wrong people because the democrats and republicans are responsible for it because they nominate two poor leaders and we are left with no choice but to elect one or the other.
I think if we get to be able to have a honest conversation about the Presidents you would see that really the Democrats have only had about 6 years or so to actually get things done (having House, Senate, and President) and about 4 of them were spent dealing with recessions that the Republicans dumped on them. Democrats have been the only party trying to legislate for the entire country, and although it has taken a while, today represents them and have a 1st hand understanding of growing up within the countries communities that have never been properly allowed to thrive and because of this have a stronger understanding of how to fix them (if they are able to).
No the democrats are not a cult but they sure do have the same words and ideas coming from all members because they have their talking points where the same words descriptive words are released to the public as they talk from subject to subject. Let me know if you think the republicans do the same.
I am not sure what you mean with this, if you could provide some examples I am happy to look them over.
But do think it would be worth you listening to a
town hall of Biden, if you mean talking about education, healthcare, being decent and reaching out to all Americans I think it is because it is things people care about and understand that the smarter and healthier we get as a society the better off we all are.
So you think obama had his hands tied and could do nothing more than he did even with both houses of congress in his pocket. Come on he could have done a lot more with his majority but he didn't. You talk about me believing trump and his minions but instead of being neutral you defend obama whose record as a human being may be good but as a president he was a joke. Your excuses for his lack of results is all about how other forces stopped him even when he had the majority. Come on if you have both houses of congress you can do anything and fast. But if you build a monster like obamacare it will fail and you will be responsible. I believe in universal healthcare but implement it better.
The Democrats and Obama first had to fix the economy Bush left them.
I suggest that you take the time to understand the trolling campaign that started around 2008 towards Obama, ever since then the information bubble on the right was airtight for a lot of people, it is real and it has been very effective.
Worth taking a minute to look over:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril-2012/obamas-top-50-accomplishments/
He got a tremendous amount done in those two years.
I know you don't like trump (I don't like him either, he is a bit of ass) but take a look what he has done in office as president. He is not just talking he is acting. All of his changes to the tax laws, his dropping of obama regulations and his handling of trade. All of these things and more have jump started our economy and pushed our unemployment lower than its been in my lifetime. And don't tell me he has had less resistance that obama did. The dems have been after him since before he was elected.
That is simply talking points Trump says enough and has his online propaganda machine push enough that people think this is somehow true.
Yes Trump changed tax laws, that benefitted the wealthiest of our nation and really has not helped much anyone else. Even things like his farmer bailouts have been soaked up by the wealthiest farmers.
His handling of trade, deregulations, and tax cuts to 'jump start' the economy is just another cult talking point of Trump.
Obama's last three years had 1.5 million more job created than Trump's first three years. It might not seem like it because Trump had his administration lie and overestimated job gains by 500,000 jobs in 2018 to make it sound better and everything he says is a con to sell his people on how great he is and lying about everyone else.
He has barely used the military compared to obamas days and he is still getting results. Look what he did to the Iranians. The Iranians have been playing in IRAQ and other countries for a long time. Finally someone has told them if you kill Americans you will pay the price.
The democrats screamed world war III and doom, what happened. Iran looked at choices and decided to back down, they shot 15 missiles into the sand at one of our biggest bases. They even contacted us thru the iraqs and told us when attack would start because they didn't want to hurt Americans. Then they told us they were done attacking us.
deterrent is a word the dems should put in their game plan. appeasement doesn't work ever .
It is too early to know what happens next, the short attention span is how Trump tricks his cult into believing whatever he says.
The dems at one time knew how to use a deterrent . After all they did drop two atomic bombs on Japan and that deterrent ended the war and saved millions of lives. I would have been a democrat then.
Anything before 1970 is not really relevant in discussions of D vs R due to the above mentioned Southern Strategy.
I see you don't like the way Trump talks. He lies. All presidents lie. Everybody is different and handles the job differently. Don't look at his words look at the results. The job of president is too complicated to look at anything else. Curse him as a man but love his hard working attitude as president.
Do you know anything about the burnham doj investigation. That is going to be very interesting to both parties . keep your eyes open
People say things that end up not being true is not the same as the lies that Trump does continuously. He has no idea what he is doing other than the most honest thing he did by filing his re-election campaign day one of his Presidential term, all he is concerned about is not being re-elected. Trump is a criminal and is afraid that when he is no longer president his future will be up to 12 American citizens.