How can it be that Bill Clinton was essentially impeached for cheating on his wife....

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

119. I've always been able to answer this. The American people place double standards on the parties.

Explanation:

They expect Republicans to play politics.
They expect Democrats to govern.

They expect Republicans to be purely conservative.
They expect Democrats to be bipartisan.

The problem with the Democratic Party is that it is heterogeneous, allowing many points of views and people of all ideologies to join it. That is also the greatest strength. When you have to accommodate AND REPRESENT so many different types of people, it is difficult to be firm in one stance.

Someone will always be pissed off because their pet issue has not been addressed. Look around you here on DU. President Obama has angered everyone because each segment of the Democratic Party has some issue they want addressed---adequately addressed like they think it should be. When Obama cannot deliver because his tent is bigger and he has all these other issues to contend with, people get angry.

It's not like that for the Republican Party. They narrow their set of issues down to a small set that can easily be understood as part of a simple plan or agenda (e.g., remember Contract for America). "God, guns, gays" is easy. It's catchy. It's simple. And everyone on that side agrees that it is an agenda that can unite all party members.

That's why.

I also blame Americans in general who still claim that both parties are to blame for the problems we have. The Republicans have worked less than 100 days this calendar year. And yet, the American people will not hold them accountable for it. Why? Because the American people do not expect Republicans to govern.

When Democrats held Congress in 2006, 2008, those were the most productive years, and what was the response? Change didn't happen quickly enough; or, Democrats didn't work hard enough, so let's vote them out and put non-working, non-governing, idiot Republicans in.

There's one more explanation:

Understand that the media is now controlled by corporations, thanks in large part to Bill Clinton.

It has carried water for Republicans now for many years, marginalizing Democrats who DO fight back. When you watch these commentary shows and there are Democrats, what do you see? Kind, polite Democrats who are agreeable and cordial to the Republicans. They are typically DLC or conservative Democrat who are unlikely to challenge the moderator or the Republican(s) on the panel. You'll also see that the Democrat is outnumbered by a right-leaning commentator posing as a moderate (Cokie Roberts) and others.

The corporate media has been a major problem for many, many years now.