Comment by adgjlsfhk1
6 months ago
if you retain power, you can fix it. the US government currently has the significant problem that one party campaigns on the government being dysfunctional, so they do their best to make it so.
6 months ago
if you retain power, you can fix it. the US government currently has the significant problem that one party campaigns on the government being dysfunctional, so they do their best to make it so.
So.. criminal racketeering?
But what would trump have done if he retained the presidency and lost congress? That's also been pretty common over the last few decades if I'm mistaken, a president with one or both sides of Congress is reelected but Congress flips to the opposition party.
He would do nothing because his supporters believe misinformation and worship him.
Prices haven't gone down at all nor will bringing manufacturing to the US do this (likely causing them to go up) but his approval rating is 50%
> He would do nothing because his supporters believe misinformation and worship him.
Interesting, that hasn't been my experience.
I live in a very red part of the country and most people I know are Trump supporters, including some family members have been very MAGA since 2016.
I've been hearing more and more complaints over missed promises: no Epstein files, raising budgets, RFK is starting to water down his promises, no end to the Ukraine or Gaza wars, etc.
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> But what would trump have done if he retained the presidency and lost congress?
Trump is blaming Biden for the obvious outcome of Trump's tarrif nonsense. What do you think Trump would have done?
You have to be fair though, politicians always blame someone else and its usually the last person that was in charge.
How often do you hear any one politician claim the glory of a situation that they had nothing to do with? And when was the last time you actually heard a politician own their failing or apologize?
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I would suppose that the Democrats would remove the policy regardless of who was in charge.
But they didn’t, so that supposition is bunk
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How?
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This civic control correlation can simply have more to do with the most-white-supremacist Democrats switching to the GOP en masse and also simultaneously leaving multiethnic cities and school districts en masse after the 1960s. That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with. Your implication that policy dysfunction has ensued on that account rather than because of fiscal drain -- that's a separate topic. Individual states and individual cities have too many fiscal policy similarities and differences, overlapping, to responsibly compare in any online discussion.
> That self-selection left Republicans not a competitive amount of credibility or voter pool behind to work with.
So by your logic New York is a better governed state than Florida? Net internal migration would seem to disagree.
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What makes California's government dysfunctional?
What about Detroit?
A government that runs the richest city in the country (SF trades this spot with NY every few years) and makes it look the way it does is the definition of dysfunction.
And Detroit... well, I guess now that they've bulldozed all the abandoned buildings it looks less like a post apocalyptic hellscape and more just abandoned. An improvement I suppose.
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