2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)There are a few things I wish they could go further on, such as single-payer health care and free education (like in Sweden), but I recognize none of that is going to happen anytime soon in a country that is still fairly divided along the middle and with a party across the aisle in Congress whose intent is to make the President look bad and fatten the pocketbook of Richie Rich. Until we either change our election system to instant run-off or until the GOP becomes irrelevant enough, the Democratic Party will be stuck straddling the middle, and those of us on the Left will essentially have to deal with just a half a loaf of bread at a time instead of the entire loaf.
The way I see it is that with the Republicans, you get no bread at all, but you at least get half a loaf under Democrats. While under Republicans the deficit and unemployment grew and we were involved in several wars, under this administration and Clinton's the deficit and unemployment have shrunk, and neither of these presidents have gotten us involved in any new wars.