I thought this question was about, "this generation" and I didn't realize we were just talking about the USA.
I'll bite though, if you want to go 'in the past' about US politics. The last time you had an administration that didn't divide the country especially over domestic issues like race, guns, gender, was the 12 years of the Reagan administration (includes Bush Sr.).
Look it up Clinton was the start of bringing racial issues back up to the front burner, (it was a pretty calm issue from mid 70s to mid 90s) as well as gender and sexual issues. Guns and abortion have been hot push button issues for decades. Clinton was also first in recent years to use your military as a social experiment and to actually get the impeachment process back to an active status.
You bring up his budget surplus, a lot would say he did that by ignoring internation affairs, by making rules to grow the economy that the negitive effect wouldn't be felt for six to eight years, well after he left office.
The housing bubble was a direct result of his policies. I lived in the US when he made the statement 'everybody needs to be able to buy a home make it happen'. That brought all the creative financing tricks and started a housing boom that was to come crashing down in mid 2000s.
I agree it's nice and everybody needs a place to live, but my ex can't pay for a 6 pack of beer if it's more than three days after payday. Some people have no money sense nor can they read a contract and understand in year three the payment doubles or year five you have a balloon payment.
No, the current political disaster that the media and Socialist Democrats now want everybody to refer to, as a failed experiment in democracy., Was started down the path of destruction by the lefts political savior Mrs. Clinton and her husband.
Defend them all you want but believe me impeachment seldom was brought up in the 50 years prior. The threat was enough for Nixon to resign because back then, 'they' the politicians understood politics change hands and you may get your way this year but payback is a bitch.
The stuff some presidents did, from at least FDR on would have started the grid lock in politics a 100 years ago. If they did impeachment everytime the other party disagrees or didn't get their way.
You're right one can't live without the other it's a game they play with the people. Otherwise they wouldn't try to change things that 60 to 70 percent of the people don't agree with, and they would table the hot button issues for a minimum of ten years. Once addressed voted on and passed or defeated by 60+ percent. Maybe they could move on to things that are actually needed.
But no, career politicians want to argue the same points over and over at least every two years.
"the politicians understood politics change hands and you may get your way this year but payback is a bitch" this is so true. Colbert had an interview with Elizabeth Warren the other day where they actually entertained the idea of getting rid of the senate because of Manchen shooting down the build back better plan and they said "the senate slows down democracy". Do they not have any idea anymore that power changes hands and if the senate was gone they would also be negatively effected? Some of the decisions they want to make will come back and hurt them badly.
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I thought this question was about, "this generation" and I didn't realize we were just talking about the USA.
I'll bite though, if you want to go 'in the past' about US politics. The last time you had an administration that didn't divide the country especially over domestic issues like race, guns, gender, was the 12 years of the Reagan administration (includes Bush Sr.).
Look it up Clinton was the start of bringing racial issues back up to the front burner, (it was a pretty calm issue from mid 70s to mid 90s) as well as gender and sexual issues. Guns and abortion have been hot push button issues for decades. Clinton was also first in recent years to use your military as a social experiment and to actually get the impeachment process back to an active status.
You bring up his budget surplus, a lot would say he did that by ignoring internation affairs, by making rules to grow the economy that the negitive effect wouldn't be felt for six to eight years, well after he left office.
The housing bubble was a direct result of his policies. I lived in the US when he made the statement 'everybody needs to be able to buy a home make it happen'. That brought all the creative financing tricks and started a housing boom that was to come crashing down in mid 2000s.
I agree it's nice and everybody needs a place to live, but my ex can't pay for a 6 pack of beer if it's more than three days after payday. Some people have no money sense nor can they read a contract and understand in year three the payment doubles or year five you have a balloon payment.
No, the current political disaster that the media and Socialist Democrats now want everybody to refer to, as a failed experiment in democracy., Was started down the path of destruction by the lefts political savior Mrs. Clinton and her husband.
Defend them all you want but believe me impeachment seldom was brought up in the 50 years prior. The threat was enough for Nixon to resign because back then, 'they' the politicians understood politics change hands and you may get your way this year but payback is a bitch.
The stuff some presidents did, from at least FDR on would have started the grid lock in politics a 100 years ago. If they did impeachment everytime the other party disagrees or didn't get their way.
You're right one can't live without the other it's a game they play with the people. Otherwise they wouldn't try to change things that 60 to 70 percent of the people don't agree with, and they would table the hot button issues for a minimum of ten years. Once addressed voted on and passed or defeated by 60+ percent. Maybe they could move on to things that are actually needed.
But no, career politicians want to argue the same points over and over at least every two years.
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"the politicians understood politics change hands and you may get your way this year but payback is a bitch" this is so true. Colbert had an interview with Elizabeth Warren the other day where they actually entertained the idea of getting rid of the senate because of Manchen shooting down the build back better plan and they said "the senate slows down democracy". Do they not have any idea anymore that power changes hands and if the senate was gone they would also be negatively effected? Some of the decisions they want to make will come back and hurt them badly.
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Agree!