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It doesn't matter what platform they run on or if they run center right or if they run an actual center left or left candidate...the Democrats are losing everywhere but the blue states and the cities. They're losing tomorrow in Georgia, they're gonna lose seats in 2018, and they are losing in 2020. And it won't matter if they completely ditched the center-right Clinton/Obama approach and went with a real left wing approach. They are losing from now on regardless.

America is an oligarchy and America is a one party state. Even the "Democrats" are nothing but center-right whores anyway.

And Tom Perez, like all Democrats, is a loser. He'll be fired as DNC chair after they lose seats in 2018.

 

I expect a long post praising me and a full apology after the idiot Dems lose tomorrow,.

 

Is idiot Dems the new Libtard?

Sent from Hell--depending on whether or not it exists.

 

Will you post an optimistic one if the dems win tomorrow?

 

lol no.

thinking you're going overboard in your doom and gloom doesn't mean I think the dems are gonna win tomorrow.

 

Okay, we can wait until the 2018 midterms when they lose Senate seats and are flat in the House.

Unless I'm wrong, in which case I will eat crow.

No, because I want them to win, more or less. I just call them that because they seem to excel at failing.

I mean, they lost to a reality TV game show host.

 

You all should not be so fretful. Barack Obama will fix everything when he returns to power.

 

Yeah, just what I want, another center-right Conservative, even if he could come back.

I want the whole thing to collapse because it sucks.

 

this is how bad it is there. shuuld be getting hammered calling for nuclear war. i mean how much worse can your ask for?

www.rawstory.com/2017/06/fox-news-bolling-recommends-preemptive-nuclear-strike-on-north-korea-before-they-hit-la/

 

I think a lot of that wasn't the Dems fault as much as it is the whole of America's fault. It doesn't seem to me like the average American cares for the ideals of the more progressive parties--especially if money is on the line. I think economic issues Trump social issues in the mind of the people here.

Where the "idiot Dems" fall into this puzzle is not running a good enough candidate or campaign to give the uneasy average voter something to rally behind, but ultimately I think the responsibility is on the People for our current president.

 

I certain agree with you there. We completely deserve Trump.

The Democrats would have a tough time winning in this backward country even with a great platform and fantastic candidates, much less the drivel they put out.

 

I thought American David Cameron had limits on the terms served?

 

Pretty sure US Presidents can only serve two full terms, unless they come to power because the current President can't continue. (Example - LBJ taking over because of JFK's death). In that case, if they serve more than two years of that term they can only be re-elected once.

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once..

Wiki 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution.

 

Also known as the FDR amendment.(FDR was elected to four terms)

 

Well, if Trump did win a second term and wanted a third, the only way that happens is repealing the Amendment- and doing so would allow Obama to run again. It would never happen because the states would smack it down. But it would be the only way Obama could ever run again - not that he actually would of course.

 

Oh FFS you people. Nobody seriously expects Obama to return.

This is why America can't have nice things.

 

Stumbled upon this article, a good read for those who think the issues of Class and Race in U.S. Politics (especially in regard to the labor movement, healthcare, and other entitlement/welfare programs) can be separated:
http://www.timwise.org/2015/04/how-...-cruelty-an-excerpt-from-under-the-affluence/

 

I'm glad we agree.

 

The second dumbest amendment ever made to the Constitution, in my opinion.

 

Well, seeing as FDR not only threatened but actually *did* succeed in stacking the Supreme Court (something almost nobody remembers) and the country not only survived but benefitted from it, I don't see that as an argument for Presidential term limits.

I believe very strongly that the ballot box is the only protection American democracy should ever need against the sort of abuse the 22nd Amendment was supposedly enacted to guard against. And I think American history since the 1940s bears that out, pretty well.

 

Just out of curiosity, what is the dumbest amendment, in your opinion?

 

The 18th amendment. No way that one was ever going to be anything but a disaster.

 

Can some one tell me why politically Russia is the devil and China is not? Everything people say about Russia could be said about China, hacking into US government computers, human rights violations, threatening smaller neighboring countries. Is it because Trump is liked by Russia?