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Originally Posted by rubecube
Not remotely what I'm saying. They have 4 years to get the U.S. trending back in the right direction. That means better paying jobs, housing, health care, and infrastructure. Those obviously take more than 4 years to accomplish on a large scale, but there have to at least be incremental improvements that demonstrate the Democrats at least understand the issues and how to fix them.
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That happened under Obama. Your contention to Obama-era policies is funny, because he did exactly what you wanted with an entirely uncooperative congress for much of his tenure.
The problem is always that America never recognizes the good the Democrats do because it IS incremental. Obamacare was always meant to be a stopgap, never a permanent solution. It was also a concession to a Republican party that decided not to play nice and do something in the best interest of the entire country: ensuring that everyone can afford health care.
No, it boils down to one party actually wants to govern and the other wants to run up the debt and blame all the country's problems on the "crazy liberals". Don't believe me? Look at any campaign run by a Republican in the last 4 election cycles.
What I've seen is defection from the Republican party because of the most extreme version of that model. I hope that continues until the party is dead in the water, or they replace it with a moderate conservative party that is actually interested in governing an entire country of diverse people again.