(February 17, 2016 at 8:37 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Politics is not about personality
It was with Obama. I met so many people that voted for him because they just liked him. They had no idea what his policies were. They knew nothing about him. It was just hope and change.
Quote:And what exactly do you expect President Trump is going to do in Washington, with pretty much the entire Congress and at least half the country hating his guts?
Half the country hated Obama for various reasons and the Republicunt congress most certainly hated him.
Quote:President of US is not an emperor - without political backing, he's going to achieve exactly nothing.Most presidents don't achieve anything other than fucking the country up worse. Look at Obamacare, it isn't universal health care. It was a plan to make insurance companies rich. Obama helped his rich buddies out.
Quote:Not that most of his "goals" are achievable in the first place - it's just bullsh*t, a show for the gullible, apathetic masses, who don't understand politics, but enjoy the show...
Every presidential race is just a dog and pony show anyway. They all talk their shit and just do what they want after they get elected.
Quote:“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.” - H.L. Mencken
A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship and a Monarchy.
~ An unknown author, first quoted in Michigan Courthouse Review v. 10–11, 1951, where the quote is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler