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However Americans have no clue how their government works and choose to listen to corporate news that would have you think the president holds all the power and we live in a dictatorship. We don't live in a dictatorship, PERIOD! So when the speaker of the house blames the president all the time, he really just thinks you're uninformed and thinks you will actually do so. In reality the house and senate have to all of the power. Presidents really only have so many powers, Both sides do it, it's up to you not to be misinformed.

Learn your civics and start blaming the right people, thats the problem with American's, High on pride, yet know nothing about there own government or how it works. We have divided power and not a dictatorship.



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No democratic leader has any power.
Democracy is ruled by the majority and the majority are idiots.



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Bomb Europe and start a war there.... I've no idea why but they've dropped bombs on pretty much every other country so they just need to start randomly bombing places til they hit one that yields massive cash bailouts for them..... Maybe bomb Andora... awful ski resort.



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vivster said:

No democratic leader has any power.
Democracy is ruled by the majority and the majority are idiots.

What we need is a dictatorship. Problem solved!



the_dengle said:
vivster said:

No democratic leader has any power.
Democracy is ruled by the majority and the majority are idiots.

What we need is a dictatorship. Problem solved!

Tht's what I've been saying for years. At least with that there is a slight chance that the leader will turn out just fine.



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vivster said:
the_dengle said:
vivster said:

No democratic leader has any power.
Democracy is ruled by the majority and the majority are idiots.

What we need is a dictatorship. Problem solved!

Tht's what I've been saying for years. At least with that there is a slight chance that the leader will turn out just fine.

A 1% chance of a competent leader as opposed to a 100% chance that 99% of our many leaders will be incompetent. I like those odds.



Forgive my apparent "ignorance", but how many problems, precisely, has Barack Obama actually created?

I'm not talking about whether you personally love or hate the guy. I'm talking about what he's actually done. He inherited the single biggest pile of shit mess that any American President has had to deal with since FDR inherited the Great Depression. That's a fact. He spent his entire first term trying to work with a highly obstructionist Congress to clean UP that mess. He succeeded, to some extent. All economic markers are higher than they were before he took office, things have more or less leveled out, and while the job market still isn't GREAT, unemployment is down. Obamacare certainly isn't perfect, and it certainly has it's flaws (I preferred the Public Option plan he originally championed before Congress slapped it down), but, the fact is, Obamacare HAS also helped many people who couldn't be covered because of pre-existing conditions GET covered, and millions of Americans who didn't have coverage now do. If you've ever had medical issues and zero coverage, you'd know what it's like to finally be able to go see doctors and shit again, without going bankrupt in bills.

Obama hasn't been a GREAT president by any means. As a lifelong far-left "Liberal", and damn proud to be one, I personally feel he hasn't been "left" enough, I feel he's tried too hard to stick to his notion of being bi-partisan, being "everyone's president". Which is ironic, because the far-right (especially the Tea Party clowns) love to call him a "Socialist" or "Communist". He couldn't be farther from either unless he was Dick Cheney in the flesh. He's dead center, honestly, in his Presidential actions. And people who label Obamacare as "socialism" honestly have a very ignorant and feeble understanding of what socialism actually is. Obamacare is the most capitalist medical bill to ever be passed, considering the real winners of it's actions are ultimately the private insurance companies who now have even more power and millions more clients.

All in all, I don't regret voting for Obama twice. He was certainly a hell of a lot better than the opposition, and their bat-shit crazy vice prez candidates. He hasn't been a GREAT President, but he's been about as decent of one that he could be, considering how hard Congress makes it for him to ever actually get anything done. The system in DC is fairly broken, and honestly, what America needs is a progressive (as in forward thinking) INDEPENDENT candidate. The two party system is old and antiquated. It does us no good. And no, I don't mean "Libertarians". I mean an actual Independent. But even if we got an Indy President worth half a shit, Congress would still shit on him and obstruct any good he'd want to do. Which is why Congress and the system in general really need to change..........the "Old Boys Club" on Capitol Hill needs to go, if America is EVER going to actually progress as a nation.

That's my two cents anyway.



I'd say move more towards "European"-style politics. At least it seems to work for China, this liberal-socialist approach they go for.



Easy, have Vladimir Putin step into office for a term, give him the power required to ACTUALLY make change possible, and voila, a better America.

Vladimir Putin for a better America, I'd vote for him.



DevilRising said:
Forgive my apparent "ignorance", but how many problems, precisely, has Barack Obama actually created?

- Syria

-Iran

-Guantanamo ( this is not a problem to be honest, it is very necessary for USA )

- 700 MLD $ program spent on givin moneyz or save FED, General Motors and other losers, create jobs/firms what go bankrupt few months later ( Suntec ) etc and my lovely ecology, she waste so so much cash on ecology

- Obamacare

- reset with Russia  gimme a break

- drones killed ppl and its ok

- 40 mln ppl use this magic ,, foods card " for cheaper food, for example - sexy dancer from CA, she makes 3,5 k$ a month. Shes hot no joke

 

 

 

A lot more, just lazy.