Packchem91 said:
FlossyDFlynt said:
For the life of me, I cannot understand the democrats current stance with education. The whole "dont say gay" narrative in Florida is one of the biggest examples of gaslighting I have seen in a long time. They were already going to struggle in November, but if they go all in here, they are going to get wiped out across the board
This is why I've been arguing the last 2 years, as frustrating as it is that Biden/Dems were in charge, and despite the fact half the country was worn out from Trump.....America's government system is the best in the world. By far.
Self-correcting. The Dems had narrow control, helped by a huge influx of moderates who switched over to "elect the lesser of two evils", and then went rogue left. So now, America reacts, and it will swing back the other way.
I know some here will disagree -- strongly -- but I pray it stays more moderate, and not swinging too far one way or the other. Both of the "others" are equally dangerous, IMO.
Going too far to push an agenda in the schools that most Americans just don't want, and demonstrating that you don't care, you're going to do it anyway....you deserve to lose.
I agree with you Chem. Our governance is like a pendulum, as long as it stayed in the middle then you didn't get wild swings one way or another. Unfortunately we have started getting extreme swings one way or another. I think we went pretty far left under Obama, then it swung just as far right with Trump, and now we've got a bit further left with Biden than we did with Obama.
Unfortunately when this happens the moderate members of your political spectrum tend to get pushed one way or another and the extremes stand out more. This also happens when the media starts picking winners and losers like they have been doing
Obama preached hope and change, and with that he pulled in tons of people to vote for him. During his presidency we went towards things like the Paris Climate accords, Dreamers, larger amounts of illegal immigrants being allowed in, and more money being pushed towards more left leaning causes. Of course you also had the media being left and holding up more of the leftist ideals and demonizing folks on the right.
From that we got Trump, who took what the media was doing and rode that to an victory in 2016. Trump worked to undo everything that Obama did, and since we no longer use the legislative branch of our government for what its supposed to be used for he could do that. If things like the dreamers act, the Iran deal, and the Paris climate accords had been passed through the legislature as they should of then you wouldn't of had this swing. From there Trump started pushing his agenda, which was very much right leaning, and the media villainized him for it. Unfortunately for the country Trump could point to the media and say that everyone was out to get him and his followers, and you know, he wasn't entirely incorrect. All this did was to push folks who supported Trump further right.
Now we have Biden, and then pendulum has swung back further left than it had with Obama. Instead of using congress like it should be, Biden has continued the tradition of ruling (and I mean that) by executive fiat. Unfortunately for Biden and the democrats, even though the presidency swung back left, the changes in actual legislative body didn't change that much with the democrats losing seats in the House and only picking up 2 in the Senate. This means that when we start to get the swing back in November because of how hard the democrats have been pushing left it's going to swing really far right.
I think the challenge is going to come when the swing goes one way, and then it doesn't come back far enough to balance things out. With the middle starting to disappear its bound to happen sooner instead of later (almost happened in 2020). I happen to think it's going to go to the right and not come back, but that's just my line of thinking. What happens when the republicans win in November and then carry the white house in 2024? I can predict it...voting changes such as a national ID to vote and court changes to keep the democrats from changing voting laws at the last moment. From there then what? What happens if democrats no longer think that its possible for them to win at the ballot box...same if the swing stays on the left? That won't end pretty...