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I’m pretty sure they all overwhelmingly achieved the same goal for the rich, it’s really very dishonest not counting Clinton at least at around the same level as Reagan.
(Well, Kennedy had that car accident, so perhaps he didn’t end his term fully.)
Reagan dropped the highest individual rate from 50% to 28%
Clinton raised it to 35%, increased tax on gasoline and removed a lot of upper limits.
It’s the fakest shit to say they’re all on the same team.
Yes.
My reasoning was that while those things changed over time/each president, the Clinton’s financial deregulation has affected decades of economy til this day, arguably also including deficits under future president (after 2007 crisis especially), which is his supposed achievement.
wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Bill_Clinton_administration#Deregulation_of_banking
Almost as if we have to totally vote out the GOP.
Well, Clinton was blue-flavoured, not red.
So vote out anyone conservative or further right.
Needs more purple & various kaleidoscopic patterns.
The two party system is cooked.
Nothing will get better till the two party system is a thing of the past.
We don’t have a 2 party system.
In theory you don’t, in practice you do.
Gotta switch to proportional representation if you want to break up the two parties. I suggest Sequential Proportional Approval Voting for multi-winner elections, and pair it with regular Approval Voting for single-winner elections. Both can be implemented at every level in the US, and some places can do so by referendum. Lemme know if you’re interested.
Arguably, all were successful except Obama.
It was too partisan I think. The ideals of universal Healthcare were not fully realized but definitely did expand Healthcare access, which isn’t enough.
There were a couple corporate dems that ratfucked progress
The dems could have kicked them off all committees, the president appoints the head of the IRS and the Attorney General, either of whom can fuck a politician up, or just removed the filibuster. Pelosi chose to let Liberman be the villain of the week. Same shit we saw under Biden where every week 1 dem or another or the parliamentarian or norms would stop the democrats from doing anything that might improve people’s conditions (and get the dems reelected).
“Successful”
This is not true. Trump’s goal as president is to stay out of prison.
That was goal 1, now goal 2 is excuting the biggest grifting world tour ever seen.
I’d’ve rather that it’d never come but, at a certain point, it reaches a point where it is mesmerizing, in its scope and scale.
Well there’s two rows missing. That would be Trump 2: get trumped
That was his goal as a candidate. His goal now is to put everyone else in
prisonconcentration camps.Imagine how much he would snitch. He’ll never be allowed to cop a deal or go to prison.
And the Americans are dumb enough to fall for the red lies every time they run.
Nixon’s Southern Strategy
Winning elections for Republicans since 1968
Maybe nobody actually gives a shit about “balanced budgets”, imperialism in outer space, or sabotaged healthcare.
they all got more money for rich people. did any of them impose term limits, stop insider training, or impose any meaningful penalties for those that already have a lot of wealth? they got wealthier and so did all around.
They literally didn’t, though. Clinton obtained surplus by raising taxes and by removing several caps which benefitted the wealthy.
And cutting the social safety net.
Nope, they all deregulated, supported monopolies & tax loopholes.
… all while the core infrastructure (healthcare, transit systems, tax systems, education, housing, etc) withered away by design.
Not to mention the massive bail-outs via blank no-strings attached checks (if a gov has to give monies to a private company that usually means shareholders lose their value, but not in the USA, they just get free monies).
And ofc war profiteering (& constantly killing some of the poorest civilians on the planet).
What about Sanders? How about Warren?
We need congressional primary attendance to break 15% before we get to complain about term limits. If you don’t show up when you have a say, then you are responsible for the career politicians.
We should be voting twice every two years, not once every four, for federal elections alone.
neither were president or are in this picture? so what about them?
You asked about creating term limits. There are limits on presidential terms, so I assumed you meant congressional term limits. No? Am I missing your point?
the OP posted Pic about presidents. my comment was did any of those presidents introduce term limits on congress or SCOTUS, etc.
I’d have loved Warren or Sanders, but neither were president.
Term limits would require legislation written by Congress. They cannot be implemented by POTUS.
I’m sure an executive order or thirty would have sufficed in leau of proper legislation.
see: current administration
Executive orders can just be repealed by the next administration. The most it could possibly affect is one House term.
I hope you’re aware that Sanders was never president. But also that he’s not a democra, which folks sometimes forget.
They’re asking about enacting term limits. There is a presidential term limit, so I assumed they were talking about Congress.
Weird cuz a lot of things Clinton did seem to be more money for rich people too
That was always their secondary goal.
Yes, it’s why the clintons win primaries over progressives.
Neo-liberals are the scum of the earth.
Reducing the deficit by cutting things that benefit the working class coincides with money for rich people.
Kennedy got to the the moon. (Posthumously)
Clinton eliminated the deficit.
Obama did not achieve universal health care.
He did give free or extremely cheap healthcare to tens of millions of americans and brought down proces nationwide by creating competition.
And if not for independent Joe Leiberman being the holdout for the 60 it took to pass any form of the bill he would have accomplished more.
Congress wouldn’t let him. The President doesn’t write the laws and can only ask Congress to do so.
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Technically you need 51 or 50 + VP tiebreaker unless a Republican filibusters then you need 60.
You can change senate rules if you have a comfortable majority but I’m pretty sure they can filibuster that, too, and it might backfire like removing the filibuster for SCOTUS and cabinet picks has.
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Progressives would need to down ballot vote for that to happen. Would also need to support and fund progressive candidates.
Progressives currently can’t even do the bare minimum (actually voting), in large enough numbers to matter.
Progressives currently can’t even do the bare minimum (actually voting), in large enough numbers to matter.
Of course not!
They’re doing something far more critical and effective!
They’re withholding votes based on purity testing and otherwise being manipulated into nullifying themselves by online manipulation by the right.
The funny thing is, americans already kinda have universal healthcare… just with a middleman. Where do they think those insurance premiums are going?
Universal Healthcare (behind a paywall)
There’s still a significant amount of people who are uninsured. So, no, Americans do not have universal healthcare.
Executive order deporting anyone in senate not voting for his agenda?
/s (but only for a few months, then headlines will explain how it’s apparently a real option)
Yes and, they also needed to break a filibuster by the Republicans, which took 60 votes in the Senate, despite severe illness and Republican shenanigans. It was a huge lift to get what we got.
He never seriously fought for universal healthcare. He stopped advocating for it before he even started fighting. As soon as he got a “reality check”, not a word of support for universal healthcare was ever uttered by him to the best of my knowledge. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, though.
This is exactly it. Obama waged no fight a pre negotiated good healthcare plan to get us the heritage plan.
Kennedy got to the the moon. (Posthumously)
I think just a few parts of his skull made it to the moon.
Dems: More money for millionaires. Reps: More money for billionaires.
But but Donny gonna send us $5k by Febru-sprin-summer!
Everyone will get their $5k in two weeks.
Theodore Roosevelt: Be a badass mother fucker
Yeah, just skip over genocide joe. lmao.
Do you think this is the last 6 presidents?
Hey that’s not fair, he also campaigned on explicitly hurting a bunch of vulnerable people!
Missed a few.
Johnson: use war to win re-election
Nixon: fight hippies and commies
Ford: pardon Nixon
Carter: attain energy independence
I like former President Obama, but his ACA was half baked. It is not even close to the healthcare system in Germany and other EU members.
Romneycare
The ACA was essentially the republican compromise that was offered to Clinton when he tried to get universal health care. He rejected it and was unable to get any meaningful change.
It shows how much we have moved to the right that the republican plan from 10 years earlier was barely able to be passed by Democrats.
I’ll also point out that Clinton’s big goal for his time in offices was universal health care not balancing the budget. He completely failed on that but did briefly balance the budget.
Still better than the republican goals.
Do you know why though?
Blame Republicans and a couple of Democrats. Yes, it was half-baked, but it was also almost defeated, and later almost repealed. The alternative of “nothing” is so much worse.
