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Wow it's amazing how little he's aged.
(apologies, my head hurts a bit much for intelligent conversation right now. I love reading your debates though)
Wow it's amazing how little he's aged.
President Obama passed the Dodd-Frank Consumer Wall Street Reform Consumer and Protection Act as a direct response to the 08' Financial Crisis and Great Recession that followed.Nope, the Democrats and Republicans play different games but one isn't any more accountable to the other. Obama took all that Goldman Sacchs money right as the big bailouts were happening and didn't do much to the banks at all in office.
Oh yes - the plutocrats will always try and find a way to manipulate government no matter what form of government is in place to rule a state. Mostly they are pretty transparent and voters have an instinctive feel for billionaires who are out to line their own pockets, because in the process they often line the pockets of millions of other people too, but they do generate inequality - so politics tends to swing back and forward between parties that favour such activity and parties that seek to restrain it and redress the inequalities, and so the balance is kept, sort of.When I see many conservative news outlets of today that are bankrolled by billionaires, I'm reminded of the John Birch Society which intellectually and historically preceded them.
Talk of communist infiltration, one-world government, and anti-semetic conspiracy theories are nothing new.
I was thinking this, too, but on a much more basal, physiological level.From a distance of several thousand miles it looks to me as though the problem in the USA is not at the roots political but social. The politics simply reflects that problem. Trying to fix the politics is just a displacement and won’t solve the issues down in the roots.
I'm sure you are right - and the culture of conspiracy theory adds fuel to that fire as well. The trouble is that an ungoverned social media supports and promotes these nightmares and I think there needs to be a radical review of the role of the media in democratic societies. By 'governed' I don't mean ruled by government necessarily, but governed in the way an engine is controlled and prevented from over-revving. We have got to the point now where it's not easy for the average guy to know what is true and what isn't any more.I was thinking this, too, but on a much more basal, physiological level.
I'm sure that one could conduct quite a compelling analysis of 'American brains' vs 'European brains' and find that, on average, Americans have larger amygdalas (or whatever other indices one might like to measure, maybe in MRI machines), resulting in higher levels of anxiety and stronger fear and threat-responses.
The life-histories and developmental environments that US citizens experience are quite unlike those of the rest of the first world, particularly in terms of perceived danger (I'm thinking of the mortal danger everybody faces from firearms, as well as the strangely overhyped news programming television that they are forced to consume), for instance.
It's just a thought (and iirc, much of this kind of comparative work has already been done) - maybe there would be no difference, or merely a negligible one, but its hard to escape the fact that Americans have been subject to an incredible diet of fear for a very long time.
Unfortunately for him, the next few years aren't going to be much different from now in terms of high tensions.
the problem in the USA is not at the roots political but social.
We did try it in the White House. The earliest elections had Presidents and Vice Presidents of opposing parties. Nothing got done and people were violently angry.Politics has become a social disease imho. If politicians spent half as much time funneling energy back into large and small town America instead of the pissing matches of who bested who ... awe hell it makes my head hurt, lol.
I'll stand firm in my idea, (Emporer @Pin psst); We've spent the last 200+years doing Democracy the 'way it's always been ', imo, 2-party should be 1Dem, 1Rep, President & VP, which ever way it lands, running the high office.
We all spout out bipartisanship throughout Congress, we should try it in the Oval Office too.
I agree. Even microscopically, we can see this in Georgia between Warnock & Ossoff. John Ossoff doesn't (to me) seem like a bad candidate; he seems sharp and vibrant. However, Warnock feels like somebody who understands, as well as motivated. Warnock's win was much wider.As far as I can see, Trump didn't win the presidency - it was Hilary Clinton who lost it, because the traditional supporters of her political tradition simply could not identify with what the Clinton Dynasty, and the left wing elite surrounding it, actually stood for. The same has happened in the UK - the Labour Party of my childhood was led by working class guys with hearts of gold and very deep roots in the communities they represented. It isn't any more - the leading lights are mostly folks with an upper middle class background who did political or social sciences at university - and soaked up a load of left wing theory that make them come over more as the priests of some impractical left wing religion than as true representatives of the less advantaged people in our country. It gets up people's noses quite honestly.
Right. This is a very good point, I agree. ^Meanwhile the politicians are all at least 80 percent corrupt on both teams by the time they hit the white house. I'm just so happy they got rid of that excuse for a president. *Watches with popcorn as he leaves*..@Misty he's not. But the right has coopted religion and has been doing it for decades now. Some Christians see through it. Unfortunately, many think that voting Republican no matter what is God's will because the issue of abortion has become a Republican rallying point.
Was the regulation strong enough? Not in my opinion, but it's a hell of a lot better than anything the Republican Party has done
I'm glad we agreeThe Democratic voters didn't care. They liked him better than Republicans and that's all that apparently mattered.
But I don't get how you get to the conclusion that Trump ran on better policies than Clinton in most respects. I also don't get how you arrive at the conclusion of Republican policies being better than Democratic policies in the broad context of American history since the 60s.I'm glad we agree