After viewing roughly 75 minutes of the first debate, and maybe 60 minutes of the second debate, there is this one trend that continues on with the candidates....the system is broke and we want to fix it. I see five essential problems with this theme:
1. Most of what they are picking....has been broke not just for the Trump era (since 2016)....but broke for years and even decades. Yes, they are talking about things that were broke in the Obama era, the Bush era, the Clinton era, the Reagan era, and even back into the Carter/Ford era. Throughout these periods, the House and Senate shifted back and forth. Each had a chance to fix problems, and some even came to resolve the issue with a 'fix'.....then came later to realize that the 'fix' actually made the problem into something bigger and worse.
2. The use of the term 'real' change? This was used a couple of times in the debates. Are we talking real change versus fake change? Is real change even a measurable accomplishment?
3. Why didn't a lot of broke things get fixed in the 2008-to-2016 era under President Obama?
4. If you add up the fixing 'cost'.....it gets up into the tens of trillions of dollars. Where exactly will that money be found? If you are saying new taxes, and it'll be taken from the companies.....will their product costs shift upwards, and be simply delivered to the customers?
5. If you go down among Americans and ask them about non-government 'things' which are broke.....they will list out hundreds of things. The NCAA bowl game process is broke. The way that cable TV bundling is done, and you are forced to have CNN in the basic package....is probably broke. Parking fees are broke. The security process at airports is broke. The list goes on and on. An average American will tell you about a hundred things which bother them.....which are broke, and there's just not much going to happen to resolve that.
Sorry, but we've kinda earned the title of a broke nation.....and apparently are fairly happy with broke things.
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