2015-12-11, 10:39 PM
Polantaris Wrote:The Obama hate was because he was black, presumed to be muslim due to his name (and his name didn't help), and thought to not be a US citizen. Basically, all paranoia.
There's only one subset of people who disliked Obama based on those things, the majority of people disliked him because of his lack of much real experience in a leadership position, and his overwhelmingly bad track record in the very few that he had. He performed exactly as those people expected.
To be honest, we -are- screwed, it's already over for this country because of the last 3 presidents we have had; all of them have done irreparable damage to the country. The debt might as well be in monopoly money at this point. The only real chance we had to get back on track was in 2008, and none of the other candidates were up to the task either. Everything has a tipping point of no return, be it the economy or climate change or whatever else; this country is already in the equivalent of the "oceanic methane bubble release" chain reaction stage of climate change.
Even if this country went full totalitarian natsoc level reform, I don't think it would be enough (from an economic standpoint, it's hard to disagree historically that Hitler didn't boost their economy absurdly to an almost miraculous extent, he just fucked up literally everything else); even at the level of depravity, discontent and economic collapse of post-WW1 Germany, the natsoc party still had more positives to work with than our next president will have, and given the candidates, none of them would be up to the task anyway, aside from maybe Sanders. I disagree with a lot of his stuff but he's probably our best chance regardless at this point. Trump's inevitable turn to independent is a double edged sword, it will secure the democratic nomination due to republican vote splits, but if Hillary gets the primary nomination then it's -really- over. That group that's been correctly guessing the next president for like 30-40 years based on algorithms has predicted Sanders will win the overall election I believe, so hopefully they are right and Hillary will be forced to pineapple off.