Very nicely summarized. Obama was a hack. If anything, he is the one started to expose/exploit race things. He never worked for all americans, he was so focused to his black base. Even the effing obamacare was for that same base. Healthecare was supposed to be for all americans not just effing minorities or low incomes. We forget things so easily. He had both Senate and House majority in favor, and he could not pass a healthcare bill for all americans. He screwed up healthcare system BIG time - very very expensive. Just think about it - who is going to subsidize the cost of healthcare for those people who never had insurance before?
Trump is a bigot, liar, call him whatever - but he is working for America. I do not care anything else. I did not effing come to this country if it is made like Bangladesh or any other country in the world. I would have stayed back in BD. I came here to make my American dream. So whoever works for America will get my vote! If you are to live the American dream, no we do not need a socialist effing agendas from demcorats. Unless democrats have ppl/policies that work for all Americans, Bernie's policies sound great on paper - but he will make another mess on education system if he was a president, just like Obama did on Healthcare. If the education system is a mess like healthcare, God forbid, what will this country become!
Do I support all the stupid stuff (including wall) Trump says/does - absolutely no! He did stand up to lot of things that deserves kudos! On the other hand, what the democrats are doing? It feels like they are working for all other people in the world but Americans hahaha
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Originally Posted by zman
A lot of people were getting sick and tired of the overt hypocrisy of the PC world we were living in. You had folks like Obama who would say all the right things and then go behind your back and do something totally different. Are we really worse off having someone who says all the wrong things, alerts us to the impending doom and then actually fails to carry out plans that were supposed to lead to the doom? How many senseless wars Obama approved during his reign has already been discussed. I also think he doesn't deserve as much credit for the economic turnaround as the fed does. If he deserves some credit it's for not allowing the recession to linger another six months or so, but just like his predecessors he failed to punish the culprit banks that caused the economic collapse in the first place. That's how the issue should've been addressed to prevent it from happening again in the future. I'm also not sure how much more effective the original Obamacare was compared to what we had in place previously. Obama spoke against gun violence but did he really have any measurable positive impact?
When Trump came to power I expected things to get much worse. The thought of packing up and moving to the North of the border had crossed my mind. People of color and Muslims were supposed to be persecuted and forced out of the country. If Obama could get away with 10 wars he had the license to start 20. The economy was supposed to crumble.
What we saw transpire instead is very different. He did set twitterverse on fire alright. We knew he talks a lot of crap, no sane person can support everything he says. But he's also shown that he can get a thing or two done and his methods work to a certain extent.
People of color are actually getting more attention in a good way. The media has stopped portraying Muslims as ISIS. More women, minorities and even Muslims are now self aware, running for government offices and getting into important positions. This wouldn't happen in a PC world where people do not feel the need to change or try harder because they falsely believe everything is hunky dory, there's no race issues or anything to worry about. A recession has been long overdue. Trump's reputation and direct meddling with the fed has somehow delayed it. Job markets are also thriving. I understand nobody can stop China's progress, but someone needed to stop the trend of starting wars with random countries and stand up against China instead and let them know they can't keep doing what they were doing forever. He fixed some of the kinks in Obamacare and made it better. He brought to light important issues like the opioid crisis, immigration and the Southern border issue.
It would've been nice to see him address bigger issues like the second amendment but we all know how far fetched even the idea of solving it is. My biggest concern about Trump is his stand on environmental issues. Other than that, I feel reasonably confident that he won't be able to accomplish any evil plans; the democratic institutions, the legislative branch in particular will prevent him from carrying out any crazy measures.
If the Dems want to give him a run for his money in 2020, I'm interested in two types of candidates.
1) Someone who not only talks about social change but has successfully done it in the past at the state level. I'm not interested in ideas alone, track record of success is important.
2) Someone like Oprah or Jeff Bezos who will possess better character and moral values and know how to build a successful organization or empire from scratch.
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