| | | If you really want to know...it is no secret that I supported Obama against Hillary prior to his first term and that I turned against him before the end of his first term. It is also no secret that I strongly criticized him for ruling by decree. All that said, one must be fair and view things from both sides to arrive at proper conclusion. So here it goes:
The US is engaged in a cold civil war. There may not be much in the way of burning and political assassinations, but a cold war is a war no less. When Obama took office, he tried to mend the country and bring both sides to the middle, going as far as even contemplating giving cabinet positions to GOP senators. That was noble but naive and idiotic. You cannot unilaterally declare peace in middle of war and not get killed. What he should have done was to hit to ground running the way Trump did by fast forwarding the policies that his voters wanted rather than trying to govern from center right, albeit from the DNC side. But that is water under the bridge now and we are all paying the price for his naivete.
That said, GOP engaged him in bad faith and bid time until they got the majority. Then they resumed their attacks in full force. The only option then left to Obama was to use the only tools he had left, i.e. the executive power. You can go research the issue from non-partisan (or bipartisan) political scientist and you will see that it was GOP that started the war and continued at it all along, going as far back as Newt Gingridge. DNC tried on multiple times to reach out with an olive branch only to pay the price for it.
My above statement is not a partisan one. I have no love of DNC and have often called for Schumer, Pelosi, and the rest of them to be thrown overboard. But it is factually correct.
The role of the majority is to rule for the greatest good of the country as a whole, and not just those voted for them. The role of the minority is to be a loyal opposition and ensure that the majority does not get it in their head that they can do whatever they want. This has not been the case for both sides. But it has been far more pronounced on the GOP side. Rove's "permanent majority" strategy of polarizing and waging a war against the middle was perfected by Trump's being only the president of those who voted for him and Mitch's saying no to anything good or bad that came from the other side.
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