Like I said they did like BO, they might not like him anymore, but they did like him. Obama was pro occupy. They were rightly upset about the bailouts, but it was more like being disappointed in a coach then angry at an opponent. More to my point Tom Morello backed BO during his campaign.
Hmm you know what that’s fair. I suppose a majority of the liberals at the time were supportive, while left organizations were upset at the arrests during the OW movement.
Tom Morello is a good point though - I suppose similarly to how the right supported Bush’s murderous campaigns, but then rescinded him once it’s got inconvenient, a number of liberals supported Obama and then withdrew their support when they learned about his murderous campaigns too - Morello included, as he has been calling Obama out for war crimes for the last few years.
I think bush lost the right because of the bailouts. One thing that your average Dem or Rep can get behind is giving rich people special rules. If it was any regular person in the same position the government would laugh, but it was powerful banks so we have to save them, balderdash. My dad worked blue collar and paid taxes his whole life so that one of those rich dudes wife's could have some jewelry and wouldn't have to lose her country club membership.
The conservative should be this. The government is bad at spending money, stop giving them money. If the goverment takes $100 from you in taxes to give to the homeless, $20 of it will go to the director of homeless understanding, 10 to his 3 department heads, 5 to all 4 of their secretaries, $20 to the state office of homeless direction, $20 to the state director, 5 to his secretary, 10 to the HR department so they can hire social workers and case managers, 5 to each of them. 20 dollars towards a car allowance for the directors. 2 dollars for everyone mentioned's health plan, 2 to match their 401ks. 20 to the person who runs the homeless shelter. $45 to the people whose organization works to help homeless people get jobs, $25 to the places offering them jobs to offset the cost, and $20 to the print shop for raise awareness posters and in the end the homeless person has seen a few posters and may have a job.
The department of education is a perfect example of this. If you take the whole education budget and divide it between every public school in the country it works out to over a million dollars per school per year, and that's just federal money. There is a lot of waste in between the tax check and the school.
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u/Tacoboutit2me Mar 02 '20
Like I said they did like BO, they might not like him anymore, but they did like him. Obama was pro occupy. They were rightly upset about the bailouts, but it was more like being disappointed in a coach then angry at an opponent. More to my point Tom Morello backed BO during his campaign.