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Originally Posted by Minte
Galvanize is precisely the word I had in mind. Look at what happened last November. People are tired of this economy and the democrats lost the house. If there would've been more senate seats up last term,they would've more than likely lost that too.
What Obama hasn't done is keep his eye on what's important to the majority. The economy. I saw yesterday that his approval ratings have dropped to 43%. That was on NBC nightly news with Brian Williams.
There are still thousands of troops in Iraq and there will be for decades. What does surprise me is the lack of anger and demonstrations with this generation. I served during Vietnam and the campuses were filled with rage against Nixon for escalating Vietnam. We have been in Afghanistan longer now and not even a whimper on campus.
I will give him credit for Bin Laden. He had the balls to say GO. And that was a good thing.
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Well I think the whole flip/flop position changes between Republicans & Democrats with-in the house, senate & presidency are more a sign that people in general are not happy with the way the govt is functioning vs unhappy with this party or that one. I think if people ever realize that it's the govt as a whole that is fucked up then maybe they might quit bickering between R & D and make the politicians actually do something other than put on dog & pony shows.
People were pissed off with GB & Republicans so it all went to Democrats now they are pissed at Obama so it's swinging Republican. They will then be pissed at Republicans and it will go back Democratic.
That to me is just a sign that people are mad at the govt as a whole and they are just blaming whom ever happens to be in power at the time. As for Iraq, of course there are still troops there, but the bulk are out.
We will be there for years just like we still have troops in Japan, Germany between the boarders in north & south Korea. Once we put troops somewhere we never seem to pull them out which is one of our biggest problems TBH.
As for people of this generation not protesting like they used to. While it might not be as obvious it still went on under Bush admin for example. Remember all the hoopla about the no protest zones?
Hell right now there is a protest on wall street where people have taken up living there to make a protest against the so called bankers. It just isn't getting much coverage.
However overall it's just much easier I guess to protest on message boards on the internet than have to go out side.
That is today's generation for yea.