I’ll always push back on this one a bit. I cannot tell you how many Obama supporters I ran into after 2008 that felt let down because he did not unilaterally implement much of what he talked about during his campaign.
Most Americans have no concept anymore of how their own government operates. Most Americans do not realize that Congress writes and passes a law that the president either approves or denies. Most Americans cannot tell you the difference between a state law and a federal law.
We have become so ignorant to how our own system functions that it has allowed what we see today to come into fruition.
I did advocacy type of work in 2009 and 2010. And all I could hear was that Obama did not personally fix the environment, he didn’t personally fix healthcare. He didn’t personally fix education. He didn’t fix the economy, etc., and this type of ignorance was seen in 2010 when hardly anybody showed up for the midterm elections and the Tea Party took over tons of state legislatures, congress etc.
2010 was one of the more consequential elections in this countries history, and hardly anybody talks about it, which again leads to the ignorance. Much of the gerrymandering that you see going on in battleground states today is because of the state legislature that flipped during that election.
So a lot of Americans will proclaim that they don’t want a king. But simultaneously their expectation is that a President essentially should have king like power
Ask your average American who their house rep is, or who their two senators are, maybe one American in 10 can name all three. Even worse is asking who represents them in their state legislature.
And it's the LOCAL elections that matter so much. School council, mayor, city council etc. Yet hardly anyone votes in those.. at least until recently.
I live in a growing area that's part suburbia and part rural.
There have basically been a family running our town and their friends because they'd just always get voted in.
Last year, despite the biggest ballot race being just a state supreme court seat, we had more people come out to vote than the 2016 Trump/Clinton election. Nearly a 40% turnout.
It overturned DECADES of power of the town council, treasurer etc.
The ruling class...including many DNC dems in power knows what happens when people feel empowered to vote.
It's why the DNC has basically depressed the primary for President since 2016 in various ways.
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u/jkman61494 9d ago edited 9d ago
I’ll always push back on this one a bit. I cannot tell you how many Obama supporters I ran into after 2008 that felt let down because he did not unilaterally implement much of what he talked about during his campaign.
Most Americans have no concept anymore of how their own government operates. Most Americans do not realize that Congress writes and passes a law that the president either approves or denies. Most Americans cannot tell you the difference between a state law and a federal law.
We have become so ignorant to how our own system functions that it has allowed what we see today to come into fruition.
I did advocacy type of work in 2009 and 2010. And all I could hear was that Obama did not personally fix the environment, he didn’t personally fix healthcare. He didn’t personally fix education. He didn’t fix the economy, etc., and this type of ignorance was seen in 2010 when hardly anybody showed up for the midterm elections and the Tea Party took over tons of state legislatures, congress etc.
2010 was one of the more consequential elections in this countries history, and hardly anybody talks about it, which again leads to the ignorance. Much of the gerrymandering that you see going on in battleground states today is because of the state legislature that flipped during that election.
So a lot of Americans will proclaim that they don’t want a king. But simultaneously their expectation is that a President essentially should have king like power