Michael Jackson wrote:Dominater wrote:I'm happy that all you guys are happy! In general, I really don't care who the president is. My lifes issues, worries, troubles and joys are the same whether the president of the US is Bush (Jr or sr), Clinton, Obama, trump, Biden, etc. This election or any other will have zero impact on my personal everyday life. I think that's the case for 99% of the population. It's like when your sports team wins or loses a regular season game. I mean sure, a win puts you in a more joyful mood for the day. But it really doesn't impact your personal life one way or the other.
That being said, definitely was not a fan of Trump. He acted more like a professional wrestler with a gimmick as opposed to a professional president. I love wrestling, but I want wrestlers acting like wrestlers not politicians acting like wrestlers. I want my president (or any politician rather but president especially) to be vanilla and regular. Like Biden's speech last night is what I would expect from a leader. Professionalism.
AOC seems to be the same way as Trump imo. Not in terms of policy of course, but in terms of I feel like she's in it more for the celebrity status. People that don't care about politics, shouldn't know who the congressmen or woman in other states even are. Like does anybody who isn't a politics fanatic thst isn't in Illinois, know who people like Dick Durbin and Robin Kelly are? No. And that's how it should be.
You state a lot of truth there. Politics and who is in office has very little effect on us the little people day to day, I guarantee that Biden is more interested in what Mitch McConnell thinks than any thought I have in my head good or bad. They really are a different class of people and they try hard to sell us that they care about us, which in a broad sweeping way they may, a little but but ultimately they are concerned with what their contemporaries think and feel. It’s not anything new, goes back to the beginning of man.
I strongly disagree. 10 million Americans now have had Covid. So it has affected most people either personally, or through someone they're close to. If Clinton had been president instead of Trump, we can only speculate, but I feel strongly that that number might have been half of what it is, or even less.
Many things the president does don't have an immediate impact, unless they start a war or something like that. But their policies do have a big effect on our lives, whether we know it or not. Just one example- Obamacare has allowed more than 20 million Americans to obtain health insurance that wouldn't otherwise have it. Had Trump been re-elected, the odds are he would have found a way to overturn it. If you are one of those 20 million, your life could change quite a bit.
One other example- Trump has done nothing to stop climate change, in fact he's made it worse. Another 4 years of Trump would mean another 4 years of inaction by the US. Ok, that might not affect you today or tomorrow, but it could have an tremendous impact on life in the US 40 years from now. Every year we put off doing something about it, it becomes that much harder to mitigate what is going to happen.
One last example- it's quite possible access to safe abortions would be eliminated in many areas of the country- mostly poor, rural areas- if Trump is re-elected and continues appointing conservative judges throughout the federal judiciary. It's already happening, but my point is, the fact that it's becoming harder and harder for women to get good reproductive care is due primarily to conservatives being elected at all levels of government. So to many women, esp. if you're poor or a person of color, that can have a sizable impact on your life.
