this interesting conversation with me way back in 2009 about the financial crisis. Keep in mind I'm also Indian but was born and raised in the US. At the time my second cousin was here in the US on Visa. We discussed the world's perception of America, and he said "You know back home in India for years we would always talk about how stupid the US was to make George W Bush the president, but the perception is at least in India that the US is just 1 more republican president away from self-destructing. As long as you guys have a democratic president there is the perception that you guys are strong and know what you are doing but if you guys ever have a bad republican president again it's over for you guys when it comes to power around the world. The financial crisis is the first time we ever saw your struggle, and it was shocking to see "
I think of these conversations I had with my cousin now because with all the fuck up's I have seen from republican presidents that it gets harder every time for the democrat president to come in and clean up their mess. We got lucky the first time with Clinton cleaning up 12 years of trash with Reagan-Bush within only a few years of his presidency. It took Obama then a full 8 years to clean up Bush's mess and to no fault of his own Biden was not able to fully clean up all of Trump's mess which is reflected in the extreme increase in food, housing, cars, etc.
I feel now this Trump presidency will be the final death nell in which I don't have much optimism that the next democrat president will be able to even clean up this time around. Whenever we get another democratic president, we are going to need extreme progressive polices to clean up all the trash Trump will have created.
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