He likes to bitch about Obama and socialists and how the government is ruining everything. Like they JUST started ruining everything in 2008. They've been ruining things forever! It's what they do! They're life ruiners! They ruin lives! [/obligatory Mean Girls quote]
And dude, I couldn't stand Bush as a person, but even with him I realized that a lot of what he was reacting to and dealing with was a long tail left by those before him. The decisions made in the government have lasting consequences. I get really, really frustrated when people talk about things Obama said in his campaign as if he's completely given on up them and is just being a two-faced douche. In my mind he is a man with good ideas who has come to realize the realities of his office. He doesn't have a magic wand. He can't make the government trundle along in a different way than it has been for so long.
I talk about how I don't have a head for politics, but when I say things like that my mother tells me that I probably understand more than I think I do. Of course, I can't say these things to my father. They don't placate him or make him think about things before he says them. His way is the Right way and lord help the person who doesn't agree. But yeah, I pretty much stopped listening to him ages ago. I can't decide if that's made it worse or not.
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Date: 2010-12-28 03:20 am (UTC)And dude, I couldn't stand Bush as a person, but even with him I realized that a lot of what he was reacting to and dealing with was a long tail left by those before him. The decisions made in the government have lasting consequences. I get really, really frustrated when people talk about things Obama said in his campaign as if he's completely given on up them and is just being a two-faced douche. In my mind he is a man with good ideas who has come to realize the realities of his office. He doesn't have a magic wand. He can't make the government trundle along in a different way than it has been for so long.
I talk about how I don't have a head for politics, but when I say things like that my mother tells me that I probably understand more than I think I do. Of course, I can't say these things to my father. They don't placate him or make him think about things before he says them. His way is the Right way and lord help the person who doesn't agree. But yeah, I pretty much stopped listening to him ages ago. I can't decide if that's made it worse or not.