tNotMyPrez wrote:
Well, I don't know. I hope you can see that our definitions are different.
I think we've made significant progress in the last 70 years in humanism, planetary environment and animal welfare. And I see that being completely stripped away by a man who not only he himself, but someone who is using the system to pander to his base for his own benefit, encouraging hatred over the fact that Obama had the nerve to be president while black.
And it's not just tRump, who wasn't even in the political picture when Obama was elected. But the Pubs were, and if you remember, they announced from the very beginning that they were going to do everything they could to disturb anything he tried to do as president. And they did. They sowed dissension and more or less silently supported the racists...
...but TRump, never one not to capitalize on an opportunity, seized on the vocal minority and gave them permission to be even more obnoxious. And they have been throughout his campaign, and his 44 months reign of stupidity and terror, undoing almost every modern advancement made in those last 70 years that appealed to me and many others, and seating lifetime appointments on the federal and Supreme Court benches that will continue to cause disarray for the next 30 or 40 years.
The lack of balance is definitely another symptom and result of a broken system. The biggest problem I see is the conservs being willing to return to the Dark Ages by strict interpretation of the Constitution, whereas I see the Constitution as a living document that must move on as people change - - a thought that is completely unacceptable to the right. The result, the consequence, is that things have become so polarized that nobody can talk to one another or allow for any compromises. It's pretty disgusting down in the trenches.
Well, I don't know. I hope you can see that our de... (
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In my opinion things really polarized under the Obama administration. And the left didn't like it when a pause was put on the instituting of radical policies.