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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Yep. I remember 4 years ago some folks here getting all upset about Michelle Bachman and how she and her craziness "Could be the President". So far, we've avoided letting any nutjobs get anywhere close to the White House.
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As I believe has been stated, the White House doesn't really controllegislation unless that party controls both houses and even then there is nearly always significant intra-party concessions that water it down (see ACA). So really the problem is never really letting the nut job near the whitehouse but rather the fact we are letting these nut jobs into the two houses where they can create and have created real damage to the country and populace.
Honestly it's for that reason why I don't think it matters if the president is divisive or inclusive for these major things such as healthcare, gun control, immigration etc. Ultimately the individuals in the two houses are the ones that need to be inclusive and that is 100% on the populace. And right now the majority of the populace in many GOP voting regions are, ummm, are crazy.
Alternatively you can have some politicians with guts. But John Oliver showed in a wonderfully scary manner why that will not happen when he did his last major bit for the Daily show on gun control. He talks to the Australian PM who ended up knowingly giving up his power to do what was right and on the flip side you have the american politician whose primary motivation is to get re-elected. It has nothing to do with standing up and doing what is right. It's about being popular so the personal gravy train doesn't end. Sure they cover that desire as fighting to get more mony and better things for their constituents but it's about them. They don't give a damn about the other 300 million people as long as they get their pork.
Now when I say it doesn't matter if the president is a nut job I mean mostly in regards to the legislation. When it comes to commander in chief, foreign affairs etc it matters a great deal so it's important that those nut jobs don't get close to the white house for those reasons.