Comments on: Change You Can Expect From Politicians http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/29/change-you-can-expect-from-politicians/ The Revolution Will Be Doodled! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:39:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Homeland Stupidity Voters’ Guide - Homeland Stupidity http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/29/change-you-can-expect-from-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-2331 Homeland Stupidity Voters’ Guide - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:01:45 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=234#comment-2331 [...] have this tendency to not fulfill their campaign promises, as illustrated in this brilliant comic from cartoonist Dale Everett. Unfortunately, people seem to forget this just before an election. [...] [...] have this tendency to not fulfill their campaign promises, as illustrated in this brilliant comic from cartoonist Dale Everett. Unfortunately, people seem to forget this just before an election. [...]

]]> By: geoff http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/29/change-you-can-expect-from-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-2317 geoff Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:32:55 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=234#comment-2317 As for whether war protests will stop after the election...there's no reason the public will think the president-elect will have the power to stop the war at that point. So we'll be in a lame duck period where things stay on the same path for a few months until the new one takes office. After that, the public will probably give him a free pass for about six months. If progress isn't made, the protests will probably start to pick back up. As for being against Bush and the Republicans, I think that's a fine position to take. If you look at this graph: http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP-L.gif you'll see that for the last 30 years, Republican presidents have pushed forth irresponsible, high-debt budgets while Democrat presidents (ie, Clinton) have turned around the irresponsible spending. The current financial crisis, generally regarded as a result of deregulation initiated by Reagan, is a very real result of this financial irresponsibility that is hitting all of us in the wallet and making us less rich (and therefore less secure) as a nation. Anti-Republican? Hell yeah. The public has seen where modern Republican leadership has taken us, and their voting shows that they demand change. As for whether war protests will stop after the election…there’s no reason the public will think the president-elect will have the power to stop the war at that point. So we’ll be in a lame duck period where things stay on the same path for a few months until the new one takes office. After that, the public will probably give him a free pass for about six months. If progress isn’t made, the protests will probably start to pick back up.

As for being against Bush and the Republicans, I think that’s a fine position to take. If you look at this graph: http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP-L.gif you’ll see that for the last 30 years, Republican presidents have pushed forth irresponsible, high-debt budgets while Democrat presidents (ie, Clinton) have turned around the irresponsible spending. The current financial crisis, generally regarded as a result of deregulation initiated by Reagan, is a very real result of this financial irresponsibility that is hitting all of us in the wallet and making us less rich (and therefore less secure) as a nation. Anti-Republican? Hell yeah. The public has seen where modern Republican leadership has taken us, and their voting shows that they demand change.

]]> By: geoff http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/10/29/change-you-can-expect-from-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-2316 geoff Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:10:20 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/?p=234#comment-2316 I disagree. The political climate is what it is; you can't tell the public not to have an opinion, and you can't tell everyone in Washington not to push their agenda. A skilled leader will be able to navigate the politics, advance what he believes is the best agenda, and manage his image at the same time. Sure, the system isn't perfect. But it is certainly possible to do the right thing from within it, even if our current leaders aren't very good examples of it. I disagree. The political climate is what it is; you can’t tell the public not to have an opinion, and you can’t tell everyone in Washington not to push their agenda. A skilled leader will be able to navigate the politics, advance what he believes is the best agenda, and manage his image at the same time. Sure, the system isn’t perfect. But it is certainly possible to do the right thing from within it, even if our current leaders aren’t very good examples of it.

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