The Decline of the Obama Presidency

[sorefeet]

Ummm, basic civics lesson folks: real power over government policy is held by the legislature. That's why the things that went sour with Bush didn't get much better under Obama. You can pick sides and argue about presidential legacies and work yourself up fighting each other. Meanwhile, the politcal and financial elites laugh at your confusion, help themselves and their corporate buddies to another big slice of your money and business goes on as usual, regardless of which a$$clown sits in the Oval Office. As long as you hate each other, they know that nothing will ever get done on the real thing that wrecked America, campaign finance rules and gerrymandered districts that created a political class more beholden to Big Wealth than voters. OK, folks, no one president ruined America, could you please get that through your little heads. The problems are systemic, not the work of any individual and that's why they never go away. I don't think it's any coincidence that the breakdown of political civility, the rise of the 1% and the corporate takeover of politics all happened in the same period of time. We are encouraged to fight among ourselves in never ending news cycles of political theater because it keeps us distracted from the buggers swiping extra slices of the pie.
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