No, the only chance to get campaign financing reform was to make that the only press, 100%, and go all in on one roll.
The thing is: afterwards he would have had capital left, but after the ACA he just made more political hostility, that's what happens when your opposition party can spend a whole term fundraising and getting lobbied because you're touching a political third rail.
If he'd managed serious campaign finance and lobbying reform, he could have used that win to neutralize his opposition and land either the ACA or the dreamers.
Actually maybe he could do campaign finance and the dreamers, the problem is for the ACA he would have been constantly threatened and bargained with the dreamers, and those bargains would have to be cashed in anyway to close the deal, ACA was such a political battleground it forced everyone to mobilize for war footing.
The GOP were desperate for a rallying cry against Obama and he gave it to them on a platter.
Some are just 'west bad! China good!', the last one was actually trying but I'd read Das capital and simply felt base Marxism was hopelessly outdated as a darwinism era construct social model, obsoleted by game theory and other more modern behavioral frameworks.
I'm a moderate centrist on most issues, I think we need more social support systems to counter balance the power of corporations and the rich, I just understand a powerful government isn't a panacea, you're just shifting the power and therefore corruption to a different body.
I’ve also been trying my hand at being a bit nicer to tankies. Oops… I mean communists.
So, I'm finding things reversed, I spent most of my time on reddit going at it with idiot conservatives, just blasting through their talking points and not being polite at all.
Tankies are different because they ... it's not selfishness, it's not just seeing themselves as the ultimate victim of "evil libruls!", they really believe the world would be better under their fairy tale. It's even different from a lot of religious nutjobs I've met, who can't wait for their God to come back and burn everyone who didn't appreciate how awesome they specifically were, like their dad who worked at the CIA doing Kung-Fu.
Fortunately the tankies have weak arguments, the best of which is "China #1 now!!!".
I'm fine with it, but only because those specific Americans were assholes and weren't in a place they could be taken for trial.
I wouldn't mind a trial in absentia, but I also understand time was a concern.
Before you say 'oh yeah, what about others in the future!?!?', everyone got that pissed over a few that pretty clearly deserved it, I'm not too worried about a potus drone striking random people at Walmart just yet.
There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.
No, the only chance to get campaign financing reform was to make that the only press, 100%, and go all in on one roll.
The thing is: afterwards he would have had capital left, but after the ACA he just made more political hostility, that's what happens when your opposition party can spend a whole term fundraising and getting lobbied because you're touching a political third rail.
If he'd managed serious campaign finance and lobbying reform, he could have used that win to neutralize his opposition and land either the ACA or the dreamers.
Actually maybe he could do campaign finance and the dreamers, the problem is for the ACA he would have been constantly threatened and bargained with the dreamers, and those bargains would have to be cashed in anyway to close the deal, ACA was such a political battleground it forced everyone to mobilize for war footing.
The GOP were desperate for a rallying cry against Obama and he gave it to them on a platter.