Top 5 Reasons it Doesn’t Matter Whether Trump or Clinton Wins

2. Gridlock

Gridlock gets a bad rap. Gridlock is a very good thing if you think about it.

When a president wants to push his agenda through to becoming law, he has to go through the Congress. If and when an actual bill arrives at the Oval Office for signature, it has been debated, tweaked, amended, shredded—you name it. That slow and deliberative process, gridlock, is precisely that which prevents a president from acting as a supreme ruler.

Gridlock is also the reason that very little will change—regardless of who wins the presidency. The priorities of Congress will prevail. All legislators have a common purpose: to get re-elected. Congressional retention is in the 90% range, so they’re not truly at risk of losing their seats, as long as they get their voters to the polls.  To achieve this they need political battles to gin up their constituencies. Both parties are mutually dependent on each other to provide the political theater necessary to keep voters engaged. No matter who the president is, the opposing party is always on the lookout for new sources of friction.