Obama's Final Two Years

Photo from Young Americans for Liberty Facebook Page

A friend's posted on their FB Wall a comment about voters going back and forth between putting Republicans in charge and Democrats in charge (with the personal viewpoint that voters finally took 6 years to "hate" the Dems and that the Republicans are going to try to achieve "normalcy"), to which I had to reply with this, and referencing the meme above:

"For decades now we've vacillated between two parties who have both only become more out-of-touch with their constituents, who've become more beholden to those who can pay to keep them getting re-elected, and who've continued to allow this country to slide further in debt, lessen our science superiority, drop in education standings, and keep us at perpetual war somewhere in the world for the sake of feeding the bloated self-defense industry. The public hasn't become disgusted enough to realize that they can start to fix this by disregarding the assumption that voting for a 3rd party candidate is "throwing their vote away b/c a Dem or Rep is going to win anyway" and realizing that voting out incumbents and voting in non-majority party will shift the balance of power. Only when we remove BOTH Dem & Rep as majority parties will anything truly begin to change. The game is too well established at this point to prevent either of the prevailing powers to break out of their current roles as foils to each other and actually get anything effectively accomplished."

In regards to the OP and title of this thread, as I've said already, I expect nothing to change. We'll have wasted time and effort spent on crafting and passing bills that those in Congress know will never pass the White House, rather than trying to come up with viable alternatives that could be debated, compromised upon to build upon strengths from both viewpoints, and something productive actually accomplished. Dems will posture about how Reps have wasted taxpayers time, Reps will bluster how they tried and were blocked at every turn, and nothing will change. Except our lives continue to worsen, the economy won't improve, the gap between those who have and have not will continue to widen, causing people to become angrier and more desperate, climate change will continue unmitigated, and energy costs and disaster recovery costs will continue to rise. We're broke and we're not trying to fix it, we're still pointing fingers and throwing temper tantrums. I only hope we wise up before it's too late.