Observation of the political situation in the U.S.

[Mac]

My observation of politics and stuff in America:

Bush's government completely threw the economy down into the shit pit. After many years of republican rule, America elected Obama. Obama has not done much at all to help, thus pissing of the centrists and compelling them to vote republican again. I don't believe socialism or communism has any chance in America right now. I predict the next leader will worsen the situation and America will be done for. What do you think?

[jake williams]

I think that all US governments since Confederation have basically done the best they could to defend what they understood to be in the interests of the ruling class at that particular time, with mixed success. The interests of this tiny minority, however understood, have broadly been in contradiction with those of the working class, the majority group for some time. Working class politics being unusually weak in the United States, there are few options for American workers to channel their totally rational frustrations, creating a pretty dangerous situation. It's hard to be hopeful, but we all have to do what we can where we are.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

The back and forth of the bourgeois political system in the U.S. with parties alternating control does help to let off a little steam I reckon...

"Since World War II, the party in control of the White House has lost an average 31 House seats and six Senate seats in the second midterm election of a president's tenure in office." - http://www4.vindy.com/content/national_world/305419179945759.php

But the effects cannot negate things like mass evictions and foreclosures, unemployment, wage cuts and austerity in the last bit.