{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
11/13/2016 11:05:57 PM
43
Let me see if I got this straight...
In 2008, the US elected Obama based on a message of change.
Then (I think I heard that it was 2010, which would make sense in the mid-terms), Republicans try to stop a lot of stuff Obama tries to change.
Then, the population gets disgruntled with the Democrats in power who are unable to enact much change because of Republican obstructionism.
And now, the Electoral College is poised to elect a Republican to power with a Republican House and Senate. Presumably many of the same Republicans who tried to stop Obama's changes.
This man and his party are conservative, the very definition of which is someone who wishes to conserve the status quo.
And they were promoted to this position on a message of... change?
Is that about right or have I grossly oversimplified this?
-
Yeah, he had absolute control to make that change from 2009-11 when he had both chambers of Congress. He made change. People immediately rejected that change because it sucked and was done without compromise. Republicans were elected to fight his shitty change. They did. Obama refused to compromise. Republicans refused to give Obama carte blanche. Nothing got done except establishment bullshittery. Trump wins on grounds of messing up establishment bullshittery. And hopefully forcing policy changes in which both sides compromise (because even Republicans aren't going to go along with everything he wants, so all sides are going to have to compromise.).
