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Originally Posted by Roboteer
Everyone who loses an election (or a series of them, as the left has) is upset, of course. Some grousing and complaining is inevitable, regardless of party. Then they get over it, and life goes on.
But the extraordinary screaming, whining, and unceasing hatred coming from the left after they got booted out of every majority in the government, is unprecedented. ...
There are two major reasons the liberals went bonkers when they realized they were losing the Nov. 2016 election in the Presidency and the Congress.
1.) One of them is loss of the opportunity to appoint judges to the Federal bench, including the Supreme Court. ....
2.) The other reason concerned Obamacare and its various unconstitutional features. ...
Trump's election was not only a stunning shock to these people. It was also the major derailing of their plans for the next decade... and beyond.
No wonder the liberals are still screaming, crying, rioting, burning and destroying things. The Trump election - which brought into power someone who clearly understood what they were doing and had no qualms about pointing it out publicly - forced their wished-for socialist utopia into the train wreck they always dreaded.
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You are giving the Democratic party far too much credit.
If the party was that smart and that organized, Bush #2 would have never won twice. And Clinton would never have been elected once.
The fact is the Democratic party hasn't been able to organize itself enough to leaver the parking lot ever since 1968. If they were so smart, they would never have lost so many national elections for such a long time.
When party discipline leaves, so does winning. In 1968, the Democratic party discipline just didn't leave, it vaporized. It took the deaths of an entire generation of older voters before the discipline could return, and for all those years, nothing but a lot of very bad habits set in to replace the discipline.
Obama was the only guy in the past 40 years who had the smarts and the vision to truly unite the party and inspire it at the same time.
Until he showed up, the Democrats were what the Republicans became during his 8 years- directionless, lacking unification, and concentrated only on opposing the other guys. All that stuff comes after a bad Presidency. Bush #2 was bad, but he was nothing like Lyndon Johnson's kind of bad. Even Nixon wasn't Johnson's kind of bad, because it didn't take long for Reagan to show up. There was no Reagan for the Democrats for the rest of the 20th century.
Bill Clinton was elected twice, but he was no Reagan. Nixon was elected twice too, and he wasn't Reagan either.
Those things- all the leaderless disarray- are habitual fallbacks in both parties. As soon as things start getting tough in the Democratic party, the leadership reverted to what they knew best how to do- lose. So they lost.
The two points you made are nothing new at all to either party. The winners always nominate SCOTUS judges whenever they can who are favorable to their party.
Scalia wasn't the only justice who ever did his party lotsa favors for decades. He wasn't the first who was so selfish to put himself above his party, either. If he had retired during the best of the Bush years, you wouldn't have even mentioned this replacement thing, but he didn't, and so he died on the job at a bad time for the Republicans.
Big deal. Happens every few decades.
Socialized medicine has been a 2-party issue ever since the end of World War II. Who came up with the plan that could get passed was the party that had the best plan.
And that was the Republicans. Mitt Romney was the very first governor to get a law that insured everyone passed during his single term. Both parties fought against him tooth and nail, but Mitt's plan was basically sound enough and popular enough that it was passed, and it still exists today.
Rant as you will about the ACA. The fact is, now that well over 20 million people who were never insured before are now insured, health care for all, rich, poor, or in the middle, is now seen as a right that all Americans should have. By more folks than those who don't see it this way.
That's exactly how our medicine will be from now on. Get used to it because there's nothing you can say that's gonna make it go away. But it can be made better. Once you jump on that horse, you're riding a winner.
That's because Obama was the Democratic Reagan.
Ronald Reagan's greatest accomplishment was to change the course of the ship of state. He steered our nation in a direction that it has never veered from since. That's something the Republicans often do the best.
Obama gave us all equal medicine. That's something the Democrats often do the best.
Don't expect the GOP to ever come up with a good social program. They can't. It's not in their DNA.
Don't expect the Democrats to always define the United States as a nation to the rest of the world. That's what the Republicans have always done the best. It's not in the Democratic DNA.
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