we have had 12 years of Bush Family presidencies, 8 years of a Clinton presidency and about six and one-half years of an Obama presidency.
When Reagan became president, we got a slight majority of Democrats in the House and the first Republican majority in the Senate for 28 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_1980
After all those presidencies, Republican and Democratic, neither our presidents nor our congresses have done a thing about the tax avoidance of the corporations, our gun culture and laws or much of anything else that matters. Social Security is still solvent and paid for by the payroll tax, and the Conservatives are still claiming it is bankrupt and needs "fixing." The cap has not been raised. The rich do not pay their fair share of taxes.
We have elected one right-wing or mainstream politician to the White House after the other, and we still have the same problems now in 2015 that we had in 1980.
Let's do something different.
Let's elect Bernie Sanders and see whether he can roll some heads in Congrress, throw some light on the corruption and get something done.
We need some progress. We tried two Bushes.
Now some Democrats want us to try our Second Clinton. The first Clinton did not improve the record of corporations on paying taxes, put the country at ease with regard to Social Security (raising the cap anyone?) or change our violent gun culture.
What makes anyone think that yet another Clinton is going to deal with any of these issues if the first one couldn't?
Let's give Bernie Sanders a chance.
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