If Obama did a good job as President, why did Hillary lose?
What if Obama wasn’t such a good president as many seem to assert?Let me point out that when he was elected, Obama was supposed to be the opposite of George W. Bush.Instead, we saw a President that:Increased inequality and in many cases, signed legislation that increased inequality.Had a cabinet selected by Citigroup.Refused to persecute Wall Street executives for the 2008 Crisis.Did not reinstate Glass-Steagall nor pass anything more than Dodd-Frank, which overlooked too many issues.Chose to write a debilitating healthcare system that even today bitterly divides Americans nicknamed Obamacare, instead of trying to copy say, the Canadian healthcare system or at least trying to implement a serious public option.Largely continued the wars of Bush and started new ones, in Libya for example, while “surging” in Afghanistan.Did not address the fundamental problem of Washington, which is political corruption.Had a pro-austerity budget and made no attempts after the first partial stimulus.Waged a war on whistleblowers that was unprecedented.Did not mobilize his base in an attempt to address the very issues that he ran to fix. He could have used his base to try to overcome an obstructionist GOP. There was a ton of goodwill after his election. He chose to throw it away.I don’t think that Obama will be well regarded. IN fact, I suspect that he will be compared to James Buchanan, who was facing a profound crisis and made a bad situation worse.There’s a reason why Bernie Sanders gained so much popularity. It was because Obama had not delivered the Change that we so pushed in 2008. There’s a reason why Clinton’s attempt to say that she was Obama’s third term failed to generate excitement.Combine that with Clinton’s poor campaigning skills and the Democratic National Committee’s unethical sabotage of Bernie Sanders, then you have Trump.
What are the chances that Trump will cancel all future elections and declare himself "president for life"?
This question occasionally arises and always fascinates me. Who could actually ask a question like this. Apparently there is a serious lack of knowledge and consciousness of Our Constitution and Rule of Law. I suspect the questioner is relatively young and educated in the American public education system. Franklin Roosevelt tried this and the idea was relegated to the dust pile of history, which public schools of course ignore. Public schools are so consumed with Social engineering they ignore History, Civics, Geography, ethics and common sense.
Will Donald Trump succeed in his obvious attempt to suppress voters?
Donald Trump is not trying to suppress voters. In fact, the only voter suppression that happened in the 2016 election was done to assure a Hillary Clinton victory. Some voting machines magically turned votes for Trump into votes for Hillary. There were even videos of people asking for republican primary ballots who were denied those ballots. Ballots depicting votes for Trump were even torn up by election workers who didn't know they were being recorded. There were also videos showing ballot boxes being stuffed with fictitious voters and their votes all went to Hillary. It was all of these incidinces that convinced many of us along with Trump himself- that the integrity of our voting system is ssly in question
Is Donald Trump likely to win the 2016 election (late 2015/early 2016)?
It is highly unlikely that ANY candidate can win the Presidency in modern America without much support from:HispanicsBlacksWomenYouthTrump has actively alienated each of these groups at some stage of his campaign, and in many cases multiple times. He has even made alienation of some of these groups a staple of his campaign. This has made Trump perhaps the most unpopular presidential candidate among non-whites in modern American history.The following favorable-unfavorable ratings are from November 8, 2015, so the ratings are likely even worse today than they were at the time given the level of discourse from Trump since then.Even the GOP understood that they must garner support from minority groups during the 2016 election cycle in order to stand a chance. See: 6 Big Takeaways From The RNC's Incredible 2012 AutopsyTrump essentially tore up the GOP's 2016 playbook, doused it in gasoline, set it on fire, then pissed on it for good measure.Trump's primary success is almost exclusively due to his appeal to white, (mostly male) disaffected nationalists - a particularly angry and vocal subset of the GOP base. While this group may be not only sustainable, but effective for the Republican Primary, it is a death sentence for any candidate's general election hopes. The changing demographics in the US simply don't favor him. There are simply not enough white nationalists (overt racists and/or borderline racists) out there to carry a candidate like Trump to victory.I predict that Trump will attempt to pivot and alter his message during the general election being the shapeshifter that he is, but I don't see that being a successful strategy. Unlike his current base of supporters who appear to be immune to rampant, pathological lying, general election voters have already seen through his bullshit and will not be so easily swayed by his shifting rhetoric.
Any one else noticed an increasingly number of Muslims in Orange County, Ca?
to the Muslims who replied.. yes we hate your religion what are you going to do kills us? blow up US building as they have been doing in your country? I think your Mohammad was a piece of crap liar who rapped any women he saw and I will personally burn that book (I already have) now what? if you love your great Qur'an so much why are you here? this country was founded based on Christianity, I am not religious at all, but the Muslim is such an infected and corrupted religion that books has been writing about its evilness and corruption, I feel as bad for you as for the people following Hitler, you have been brained washed to the fact that you have lost with your humanity, you don't know what morals are, you think your religion is a secret? anyone with a bit of education can read about it? and you call the tragedy death of my beloved family a "story" that is just a fact how much respect you have for human life or even worse how much you lost your soul .. I feel sorry