Could Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?
In a different way…My democratic dream for 2020 : The Democrats playing it strategic and make a solid decision by adding Beto from Texas while leveraging his popularity and partnering him with Kamala Harris from California, now that combination would be lit !!!!! I would buy a ticket just to fly to the inauguration ceremony so fast ! Imagine Texas and California teaming up together bluing America out! TWO BIG STATES, NO PROBLEM...everyone else will follow.Let's do the math:Beto as president = Texans always love a native born Texan running for president except for Cruz, since he's a butt kisser and Canadain. He's a Male and I can tell that the men in the USA and some large population of latinx/white women voters traditionally prefer males as president over a female from the last past election in statistical models. In addition, he's original and not a brand name politican like the Bushes.Kamala as VP: of course I would want her as president but realistically she would be perceived as threaten to the Male egos of America and other world leaders might not respect her as a female in many world cultures unfortunately. She is a great diverse key to the ballot with her intellect and her bi-raical ethnicity background from California and as liberal Texan Beto as the front face cover up poster leader. They will be unstoppable no questions asked. Minorities love them both. We just need to market this approach without any distractions .They can NOT have a libertarian or another random Democrat distracting the voters. They have to focus on those solid two candidates, because when Bernie ran against Hillary it broke the democratic party voters resulting in a major divide. Some people thought Bernie was too liberal with his educational plans and Hillary well you know the story.
Why are some liberals so condescending toward Trump supporters? Do they really feel they are superior?
They can’t believe anyone voted for someone who has spouted so much hate speech, who has so few coherent ideas, and whose tendencies seem too patently autocratic.It’s not about liberals feeling “superior”: it’s about us being morally aghast that you guys got behind a demi-man who called Mexicans “rapists” in his campaign announcement, has degraded women, attacked anyone who dares criticize him, waged a systematic war on the very free press whose constant attention to him probably factored in his victory, attacked a Gold Star family and compared his “sacrifices” as real-estate billionaire to those of the young and dead Muslim-American soldier Humayun Khan, who besmirched John McCain’s status as a war hero — when was Trump ever in Vietnam?, who wants to create a registry for Muslims (much as Hitler did for Jews — bad precedent), who has the zealous support of the KKK, who cozied up to Putin (whose government interfered in the election — in the country whose security the president is supposed to ensure), who has been nominating plutocrats and alt-right loons to very lofty and powerful positions, who promises to deport millions and break up families, to “build a Wall and make Mexico pay for it” (good luck), who will lead us into trade wars and likely encourage fiscal policy that will lead to another huge financial meltdown, calls climate change a hoax propagated by China (and therefore embraces destructive industries and deregulation, and has no agenda to help mitigate the first anthropogenic extinction in our planet’s history), etc., etc., etc.We are disappointed to think we live in a country in which our fellow citizens think that these things are presidential, that they befit the leader of the free world. We are horrified to think that America elected its own image, and that image is this. The man’s affronts to common decency and infantile vulnerability to any provocation should have disqualified him in the minds of all decent and sane people.So what the fuck happened? I am no great fan of Hillary’s. I don’t think Washington is functioning properly. But electing this wholly selfish, power-hungry golem to our highest office was not a wise alternative.It’s not so much about superiority. The feeling is “This is America in the twenty-first century! How could you?”
It is 2018 right now…why do you think Donald Trump will win in 2020?
Because in 2020, once again, the Democrats will lack a winning candidate. They will have to wait until 2024. Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit an all-time high in the midterm - with roughly an equal percentage of people approving and disapproving of his performance as President. Unemployment rates are hitting record lows across the country and most people are happy when they are fully employed and safe. People in the U.S. feel much safer having Donald Trump, with a net worth of over $3 billion dollars, as President than if Hillary Clinton had won. Extermist group such as ISIS and al-Qaeda have lost their stronghold. Trump needs to do more to quash U.S. gangs in urban areas so they can also lose their stronghold. Most citizens, conservative and liberal, are also against hyperimmigration and support some type of control, even if not a physical border wall and want citizens to have priority over immigrants, especially illegal immigrants. And most people want access to affordable health care coverage; Trump isn’t going to completely eliminate the Affordable Care Act, which may not even be possible. Trump didn’t win the popular vote in the 2016 election because a strong number of Democratic and Independent voters were empowered by Hillary Clinton and the idea of electing a very qualified first woman president, especially after an eight-year presidency by our first multiracial president. These voters won’t be as empowered next time around since Clinton would be very unlikely to run again and risk losing a third time (if you count the time she won the popular vote against Obama but lost the electoral vote for President). Another woman candidate would be relatively unknown, or at least not as widely known as Clinton and would surely fail to woo enough voters to ensure a victory. I do predict that if current trends continue, Trump will actually win the popular vote in 2020, at least 51%, and pick up a few more electoral votes and states. Yes, “The Donald” is an asshole but the U.S. was in dire need of an asshole president.
Why did the USA's "War on Poverty" fail?
The War on Poverty, which was actually a nickname for a number of important initiatives, was not a fail just like the ACA was not a fail. They both succeeded but were not enough. Both initiatives tried to fix something that is fundamentally flawed. You can only go so far and at some point the underlying paradigm has to change.The War on Poverty had an uphill battle by 1968 as the cost of the war in Vietnam started very severe inflation that would become the worst the United States has ever seen. Officially the CPI was 6.5% which is a lot but food was 22%. The conservatives hated the idea of the War on Poverty and are in the process even now of destroying the last tiny vestiges of it.The War on Poverty was a good idea. It attacked poverty at its roots but the wealthy were not going to have it. One party spent the next 40 years sabotaging it in every way they could instead of trying to make it work. You know who I am talking about, Republicans. Stomp something into the ground just so you can say, “Look, it isn’t working very well, we better put a stop to it”.Yes there were some problems in the beginning. There were some holes that people exploited. This is to be expected but instead of fixing the holes the Republicans flushed the whole thing down the toilet.By the way, does anyone listen to Milton Friedman anymore? At least Greenspan recanted on his unregulated market bullshit after the 2008 debacle. Friedman you asshole, the War on Poverty could have worked but you, more than anyone else shot it down. Do you really think Friedman style capitalism is working for more than 1% of Americans? Where is the progress, man? You were obviously wrong.