Why This Millenial is Supporting Hillary Clinton (and not Bernie)

Even if the next Dem President achieves a victory as resounding as President Obama's, he will be forced to act alone.

The Rethugs in Congress will not help the new Democratic President achieve anything. Their policy is nothing but obstructionism.

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But the truth is that in order to understand politics you have to understand history, something the vast majority of millennials simply fail to grasp. It's not even "ancient history" that millennials need to understand but rather the political climate of the past seven years. That's it. Anyone who has been actively following politics since 2008 knows the kind of political climate that currently exists in Washington, D.C. After the 2010 midterm elections when Republicans took control of the House, we then had the two least productive Congresses in history, which oddly enough happened after we elected a group of politicians to government who openly stated that they hated government. With Republicans taking over control of the Senate in 2014, it has only been President Obama's veto pen that has kept the country from regressing back to pre-2008 economic and social policies.

That current political reality matters and it matters because it's what lies in the aftermath of a transformational president being elected. In 2008, Senator Barack Obama ushered in a new generation of politics in America. With the Great Recession under way, America was desperate for a candidate that would bring "hope and change" to a country that for eight years had been crushed by tax cuts for the rich, two trillion-dollar wars, a flailing auto industry, massive job losses, and staggering unemployment under the Bush/Cheney presidency. When the election night returns came in, it was a resounding victory for Senator Obama who racked up 69.4 million popular votes as well as 365 electoral votes. The American people had spoken and the newly-elected President Obama had a mandate from the American people.

Except Republican leadership didn't get this memo. In fact, rather than showing goodwill and working with the popularly-elected president, senior Republican leadership vowed to do everything in their power to make President Obama a one-term president. And so President Obama was forced to go it at alone. Even then, with a veto-proof Senate and a majority in the House of Representatives, President Obama still had to battle those within his own party who were grotesquely entrenched with their ties to special interests. At a time when affordable health care, a democratic priority since the Truman Administration, should have been a slam dunk, President Obama was forced to scale back his plan. Universal health care was never an option and even the public option was seen as "too radical" by many of those within the president's own party. In the end, it took every single ounce of support to pass the Affordable Care Act, without a single vote from Republicans in the Senate as well as 35 Democrats refusing to support it in the House. It may not have been exactly what President Obama wanted, but he made the hard decisions and was able to compromise and work with those to help achieve what many now see as a central part of his legacy.

That is why you need a pragmatist like Barack Obama in the White House.

SNIP