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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes
 

I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don't, you weren't paying attention.

Plenty of us were critiquing Clinton's campaign on those merits and were consistently talked down to in shocker the same way we're being talked down to now. Shocker, she lost. I remember saying a few weeks before the election "We're about to get Brexited." I put my vote down for Clinton, because Trump is fucking insane, and that was clear before he was President. It was clear in the fucking 1980's.

Being able to critique our leaders is supposed to be what is the difference between us and conservative voters. They're the cult who unquestioningly believes all the bullshit that comes out of Trump's mouth and diapers. I find it weird that people think we should be more like them in regards to our leaders like that would be a good thing.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 35 points 10 months ago (36 children)

I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don’t, you weren’t paying attention.

Barack Obama had the opportunity to become the next FDR. Instead, we got a modern day Woodrow Wilson, more interested in shoring up domestic businesses and building out international military alliances than repairing the post-'08 damage to the housing economy or extending full public health benefits to a nation crippled by medical bankruptcies.

By the time he left office, he was running on... what? A Pacific Rim trade deal we didn't need. A climate change crisis he'd failed to address. A slew of new military conflicts in the Middle East introduced under his administration that he'd originally promised to end. A federal court system he'd allowed his Senate rivals to hijack.

Hillary sucked. But far too little credit is afforded to the guy who had eight years to deliver on desperately needed federal reforms and - either through incompetence or unwillingness - failed to do so.

[–] 0XiDE 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention the whole spying on his citizens PRISM thing happened under his watch.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Spying on citizens is the backbone of the modern government and has been since at least the Palmer Raids of the 1910s.

PRISM gave Obama a golden opportunity to back off the intensive degree of domestic espionage. But, of course, he didn't. Instead, we spent a few months arguing over the defunding of ACORN.

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