Regarding strengthening the fed, we cannot say this is not true of both sides.
I dont understand why a strong federal government is a bad thing as long as they stick to the laws.
We just need better people in charge of the departments IMO. Good people in the roles that Trump has filled with minions could do a lot of good. And there are a lot of ways that doing some things at the federal level is more beneficial and can take a bigger picture approach to very real problems we need to face as a society.
Trump way abused executive powers, sending in feds to Portland, Republicans making laws that basically infringe on our rights to protest, renewing the Emergency Powers granted from 9/11 for the current "war", etc etc were/are terrible. But we cannot forget that the other side also makes big brother stronger.
I am not sure any laws were written, just Trump asking his goon squad to break the law and they doing it. Or are you talking prior to Trump?
I don't buy the 'Big Brother' stuff. It is naive AF to think anything you do online or captured off your devices is not being collected by foreign militaries and analyzed constantly for any and all vulnerabilities to exploit. I don't know what the reason would be that you prefer our government to be unable to fight the new warfare being conducted on us. As much as I don't trust Trump and am personally always freaked out by cops, they are Americans. And I have to hope that means something to the thousands of people working everyday to keep us as safe as possible.
Snowden was an Obama administration issue, and while I agree Obama did great things, they did bad as well. There are long lists of scandals and infringements that involve both sides, of which I don't know them all nor can I list them. Wikipedia has a pretty good growing list but its wikipedia.
Yeah IMO Snowden is a lot like Bannon who gave the Russian military our voting data Trump got from the RNC. Except Snowden stole data files from the NSA, with the help of wikileaks was smuggled to Russia, where he gave Putin the weapon they needed to attack our nation.
"Long lists" don't mean shit because of the amount of 'items' on them, I would look at the actual policies you see on those lists and evaluate the lists bullshit level for yourself. It is pretty eye-opening experience.
You start to see it is like someone saying two people are criminals, when one guy was working with a foreign nation while they were attacking 128 million Americans to help them get elected to POTUS, and the other got a parking ticket.
I don't mind wikipeadea, they have a lot of centralized information. But make sure that you decide if what it is matters or not.
(I know there are many things better seated at the Federal level vs state level. My feeling is that it has gone past balanced and my vote reflected that)
How so?
My trust in politicians doing what is best for Americans has been greatly tarnished. Trump didn't ruin my trust in politicians, he secured their place in being untrustworthy.
I think this is one of those populous messages that sounds cool and all, but doesn't really mean much other than it is too hard to think of something else to say.
It might be interesting to look at what things you really dislike and see how much the Democrats could have fixed it at the time. Hindsight is 20/20, and we have been under a propaganda war from the Russian military for a long time and it is worth double checking how you feel with what/when really happened to double check your theories still hold water.