(10-29-2020, 09:20 PM)Jags Wrote:

(10-29-2020, 08:51 PM)mikesez Wrote: Here's some opinions you might agree with: I love my wife, my children and my cats.  I never wanted a dog, but I think my son might be a dog person and we might get him one. I think the Jags get jobbed by the referees more than any other team.

In my opinion, all politicians are at least a little corrupt, especially if they've been reelected more than once.  

But unfortunately we've been trained to think if we just vote for the right guy once every four years, he or she will become the superhuman force and cut through all the barriers no other politician could, and reduce this corruption. And that's not an opinion. That's a fact. Look at Obama's sales pitch in 2008. Put me in and I'll fix it. Trump sales pitch in 2016 too. Put him in and he'll fix it. only he can.  So another fact, the founders did not design the presidency to be the one office that could fix things. obviously there are many other people and many other offices that are supposed to agree first. 

So now, your opinion, please. Long term, can we change our system so one guy can fix it? Or, can we retrain our minds to be more engaged with the entire process as it exists today? And if yes to either question, how?

If one guy could fix it we wouldn’t have the government we have, now would we?  We already have a process, and if the left didn’t have such a hissy fit about everything that doesn’t go their way  im sure it would be a fine process.  But sadly they Just won’t let anything good happen.

It's the left and the right, though.  Republicans didn't vote for anything Obama wanted.  They did everything they could to stymie him.  Which is fine, sometimes people disagree about everything.  Unfortunate, but that's life.  But what's strange is those same Republicans all got quiet and compliant as Trump carried on many of the same things.  Obamacare: still in place except for individual mandate. Dodd-Frank: still in place, mostly, but the threshold for being considered "too big to fail" was raised so as to cover fewer banks. Immigration reform or a wall: still nothing.

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(10-29-2020, 09:33 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: You cant reason with a male who watches Young Sheldon.

Life lesson.

You can't, sure.  But others can.  Tell me, what part of the story I told Beach Bunny is false? Did I omit any important fact?

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