Presidential race 2016

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't believe any of them have any plans to change shit other than nigger rigging this and that to make it appear they actually did something without changing anything. It's all guided which is why I don't much care. My life and your life will remain the same whether Trump or Cruz or Hillary or Bernie or whoever is elected president.

I don't think Hillary, Rubio or Kasich's term(s) would affect huge changes in our lives, even if they worked hard. You're probably right about that. Cruz is so conservative, I think he'd try to reverse some of what Obama has pushed through and do what he could to ban abortion and same sex marriage, repeal ObamaCare, etc. However, Congressional Republicans like him about as much or less than they like Obama and Congressional Democrats can't stand him either -- I don't think he'd be able to affect much change.

I have no doubt that Bernie would push hard to make the significant changes he's advocating in his platform become realities if he's elected. Those changes would have significant impacts on our lives (truly universal health care, higher taxes, low cost or free post high-school education for our kids, non-interventionist foreign policy...).

I don't know about Trump. He's been completely inconsistent on most all major social and foreign policy issues, and there's so little meat on the bone in terms of his policies. Just "we're gonna win and make America great again". His team finally put together a health care reform outline ahead of tonight's debate (which I missed); it includes basically all the stump points from Republicans over the last couple of years. Maybe it would work. Anyway, If he's elected, I don't know if he'll make major bad or good changes or instead just get a bunch of experienced established politicians to whom he can delegate behind the scenes while he works on branding himself in the foreground. He's a wild card for me.

If either Hillary or Bernie gets elected, they would certainly appoint a more center or liberal Supreme Court Justice than Scalia, which would tilt the court to the left. That could affect our lives and our kids' lives more significantly than the person who next occupies the White House, in my opinion.