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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Of course, you don't live here so that could be a reason why you're having trouble understanding such a simple concept.
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I do live here and I can't quite grasp the concept, because the problem is that unless Democrats put an intensely far right candidate into office, a candidate who is going to cave to everything the GOP wants, then the GOP is going to continue to try blocking any and all progress, be it Clinton or someone else in office.
And I'd much rather worry about "divisive" than worry about someone who is just going to let the GOP run the show.
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Originally Posted by MattyC
But it takes two sides to be divisive.
If Hillary wants to put through a bill that lowers interest for student loans to that of the actual interest rate and not have the government (and banks) making money off of students (which they actually just tried to pass but was defeated because only 3 GOP crossed the floor on it), and it gets blocked, who is really being divisive?
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Again: this is the problem. There is not a current Democrat candidate of any kind that the GOP is going to be willing to compromise with, because the GOP does not want compromise in any way. They want their way, exactly their way, and they aren't going to agree to anything less. No matter who is in office.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
A President could be successful without that quality. I just think it is what this country needs right now.
Obama shouldn't have caved. I don't consider the actions he took in that situation to be divisive. There's a big difference between action and rhetoric. One is important to the process the other is meaningless in the process but can be extremely harmful when digested by the public.
Don't you think guys like Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin etc are harmful? All they do is spew rhetoric every day.
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Limbaugh/Hannity/et al are going to exist no matter who is in office, though. And they will always find ways to make that person look bad, if it isn't a conservative Republican. They're going to continue causing rifts between right and left, Democrat and Republican, because they want ratings, and whipping mindless idiots into a frenzy over Obamacare! and Bengazi! and Bergdahl! will always get ratings and attention and feed more ad money into their wallets.
In an ideal world, a unifying leader would be fantastic. But that ideal world would involve a GOP/conservative base that was willing to compromise and see eye-to-eye with the other side. This current group is unwilling to do so.