The parties are polarized today.
To understand that you have to go back to
the 1960’s,
when the Democrats adopted
or embraced the cause of civil rights.
The conservatives in the party, largely Southern,
left the party and went to
the Republicans on this race issue,
and the remaining liberals
in the Republican Party over time,
left the Republican Party, and
went to the Democratic
Party,
which gives us two fairly cohesive ideological parties.
One party liberal, one party conservative.
And this is essentially traced to-
traced
to the 1960’s civil rights race revolution.
But the parties are not polarized that much
on race today.
They’re polarized now on the welfare state
and taxes.
The Democrats want to extend the welfare state,
national health insurance,
free college tuition,
child care.
And the Republicans wish to roll it back.
They wish to roll back Social Security, Medicare,
and cut taxes.
So that is the really big issue.
It’s not race it’s taxes and
the size and the scope of the welfare state.
The major polarizing issues today between
the two parties.
If Mrs. Clinton wins, nothing is going to
happen.
It will be just a continuation of the gridlock
we’ve seen for the last six years with Obama
because the Republicans will control at least
one house of congress, the House of Representatives,
and they will block everything she attempts
to do.
So for those persons who would actually like
to see action,
would actually like to see something get done in Washington,
whether
its good or bad,
a Trump presidency promises more positive policy action
than a Clinton presidency
because a Clinton presidency with one house
controlled by the Republicans  will
lead to simply
four years of, at least two years for sure,
of policy gridlock and
fussing, fighting, arguing but no substantive action.
