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Even to get elected, he had to play the "I am you, I'm for the common man" BS when it clearly has never been true but people bought it and he has shown his true colors the last 4 years of crooked/ Corporate Type corruption all the 1 percent do. . Every generation that is being created is leaning further left and as the income gap continues it only pushes future generations even further to the left..
There isn't enough Millionaires/Billionaires/Corporate executives to stop the swing left
You have touched upon a few things which are important.
The wage/income gap and wealth gap continue to grow, largely a result of Republican policies favoring the very wealthy. Specifically 'supply side' economics.
Society needs to cope with this new reality, therefore social safety nets (Social Security, Medicare and new national health care policies) are becoming increasingly popular and needed. This is what appears to some people as 'left leaning'.
As a result, Republican policies have been becoming less and less popular. In a republic that relies upon the popular vote, this can mean Republican policies will be cast to the dustbin. Progressive taxation on the levels of 1950's USA may be reintroduced and social services may be expanded.
One option for Republican operatives can be to simply deceive the voters, getting them to vote for policies against their own best interests. This seems to be the path currently taken by the party, holding up shiny objects to divert the attention of the people while they take away their protections and their security.
Another option is to change the way we do elections, restricting the vote to 'safe' constituencies and disenfranchising the categories of people which have been hurt the most by these inequitable policies. We see this being attempted in various ways all across the country.
It's a work in process, but the clock is ticking. This is a dangerous situation for the big money backers of the Republican party. If the Republican Party fails to dominate national policy for any length of time, the big money and global corporate interests will find new hosts to infect, and the cadaver of the old party will wither away.
It isn't a new thing that younger people tend to lean left, but things may change as they grow older. Once someone learns that nothing is free and where the money for others free stuff is coming from, that sobering thought tends to make one a little more conservative.
It is amusing to hear the young ones lists of wants when it comes to free things. Yes, tax the corporations and drive them from the country, the ones that are left.
I am not seeing the threat. Prepare for 4 more years of Trump, and if the Dems continue as they are, prepare to welcome a President Pence.
Exactly, with age comes wisdom. These brainwashed young voters will find out as they mature that having a Democrat president isn't in their best interests nor the rest of the country with their socialistic, open borders and far left so-called progressive policies.
You have touched upon a few things which are important.
The wage/income gap and wealth gap continue to grow, largely a result of Republican policies favoring the very wealthy. Specifically 'supply side' economics.
Society needs to cope with this new reality, therefore social safety nets (Social Security, Medicare and new national health care policies) are becoming increasingly popular and needed. This is what appears to some people as 'left leaning'.
As a result, Republican policies have been becoming less and less popular. In a republic that relies upon the popular vote, this can mean Republican policies will be cast to the dustbin. Progressive taxation on the levels of 1950's USA may be reintroduced and social services may be expanded.
One option for Republican operatives can be to simply deceive the voters, getting them to vote for policies against their own best interests. This seems to be the path currently taken by the party, holding up shiny objects to divert the attention of the people while they take away their protections and their security.
Another option is to change the way we do elections, restricting the vote to 'safe' constituencies and disenfranchising the categories of people which have been hurt the most by these inequitable policies. We see this being attempted in various ways all across the country.
It's a work in process, but the clock is ticking. This is a dangerous situation for the big money backers of the Republican party. If the Republican Party fails to dominate national policy for any length of time, the big money and global corporate interests will find new hosts to infect, and the cadaver of the old party will wither away.
Just change the Republican to Democrat and you hardly need to change anything else and you fit the Clinton/Obama Democrats, especially the big money/global corporate interests paragraph.
And after Obama, when the "most qualified candidate EVAR!" was on the slate for the Democrats....the Republicans elected the President. Also of note after 2009, the Republicans retook the House in 2010 and then the Senate in 2014.
If American electoral history teaches anything, it's that neither party stays on top forever, nor the bottom. America likes flipping the script on the two parties, and they like doing it often.
You have touched upon a few things which are important.
The wage/income gap and wealth gap continue to grow, largely a result of Republican policies favoring the very wealthy. Specifically 'supply side' economics.
Society needs to cope with this new reality, therefore social safety nets (Social Security, Medicare and new national health care policies) are becoming increasingly popular and needed. This is what appears to some people as 'left leaning'.
As a result, Republican policies have been becoming less and less popular. In a republic that relies upon the popular vote, this can mean Republican policies will be cast to the dustbin. Progressive taxation on the levels of 1950's USA may be reintroduced and social services may be expanded.
One option for Republican operatives can be to simply deceive the voters, getting them to vote for policies against their own best interests. This seems to be the path currently taken by the party, holding up shiny objects to divert the attention of the people while they take away their protections and their security.
Another option is to change the way we do elections, restricting the vote to 'safe' constituencies and disenfranchising the categories of people which have been hurt the most by these inequitable policies. We see this being attempted in various ways all across the country.
It's a work in process, but the clock is ticking. This is a dangerous situation for the big money backers of the Republican party. If the Republican Party fails to dominate national policy for any length of time, the big money and global corporate interests will find new hosts to infect, and the cadaver of the old party will wither away.
Yeah, so much better to vote for the Democrats that want amnesty for illegal aliens so they can retain American jobs and overcrowd our schools, jails, hospitals, roads and neighborhoods, who will further deplete our social and natural resources and opposing the wall to help stop more from getting in here.....NOT! That's just the tip of the iceberg on the bad policies promoted by the Democrats that hurt the American worker/taxpayer such as the middle class having to support the lazy do-nothing welfare moochers.
You have touched upon a few things which are important.
The wage/income gap and wealth gap continue to grow, largely a result of Republican policies favoring the very wealthy. Specifically 'supply side' economics.
Society needs to cope with this new reality, therefore social safety nets (Social Security, Medicare and new national health care policies) are becoming increasingly popular and needed. This is what appears to some people as 'left leaning'.
As a result, Republican policies have been becoming less and less popular. In a republic that relies upon the popular vote, this can mean Republican policies will be cast to the dustbin. Progressive taxation on the levels of 1950's USA may be reintroduced and social services may be expanded.
One option for Republican operatives can be to simply deceive the voters, getting them to vote for policies against their own best interests. This seems to be the path currently taken by the party, holding up shiny objects to divert the attention of the people while they take away their protections and their security.
Another option is to change the way we do elections, restricting the vote to 'safe' constituencies and disenfranchising the categories of people which have been hurt the most by these inequitable policies. We see this being attempted in various ways all across the country.
It's a work in process, but the clock is ticking. This is a dangerous situation for the big money backers of the Republican party. If the Republican Party fails to dominate national policy for any length of time, the big money and global corporate interests will find new hosts to infect, and the cadaver of the old party will wither away.
wow...how wrong can you be
1. the wage/wealth gap is increasing...not do to republican policies..but do to globalist liberal policies.....btw the wealth gap is increasing in EVERY 1st world nation to include France, Norway, and Denmark
2. 3/4 of our (USA) budget is to social safety net programs, an the spending on them is every increasing our debt
BHO was no moderate...he was a far leftist, who would NOT work with the opposition...the only thing moderate about Obama was he understand that to go far left, it is in small steps
Wait until Gen Z becomes active in politics, history will look at Barack as a conservative.
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