Iceweasel
Diamond Member
I listen to the candidates say what they believe, not what someone wrote on their website. Don Trumponi is the vaguest candidate there and doesn't have a track record to speak of. You see that as good, I don't.He's never specific either, it's always "we're gonna kick butt. Or we're gonna be great again". Sounds a lot like hope and change to me. The problem is, America IS dumb enough to keep buying the snake oil.That's the point exactly. From one cult of personality to the extreme opposite. We've had a narcissist in the white House for long enough. I can understand it on one level but being president isn't like playing the best Monopoly game. I think a Trump nomination will be a sure Hillary win.Donald is Barack Obama dressed in Republican garb anyway, so why not just go whole hog and give him the coronation Obama's supporters tried to push for? Given the political trends in this country the last couple decades or so, I don't know why we're even bothering to pretend to be a real, functioning, serious nation with a democratic tradition any more.
This has gotten steadily more pathetic to the point where it's actually more farce than tragedy now. Every election cycle, I hear the nation babbling about "what really matters" in their decision-making, and it becomes more shallow and absurd with each one. We might as well be picking a name at random out of the phone book. We now have people wanting to elect someone President because he's a crude, vulgar, offensive blowhard. Issues? What fucking issues? He pisses people off, and that's so much FUN!
Well, hell, I see guys who meet THAT qualification every time I go to a bar on a Saturday night. Why don't we just elect one of them, liquor him up, and point him at Iran, for crying out loud?
I swear to God, if we put Donald Trump in the White House, our grandchildren are going to be coming up to us some day and asking, "Was the whole country high and voting as a prank? Were they putting crack in the water supply?"
Which "candidate" is more specific? Trump outlines his proposals on his website. He has as many specifics as any other candidate.
IMHO, the snake oil is being sold by the establishment. They want you to believe that there is a real difference between "R" and "D". There isn't.. They are two sides of the same coin. Both are bought and paid for by special interests and lobbyists. Both continue to double down on the same failed economic policies that have our country at the precipice. What is the difference between Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi and Boehner/Ryan? Nothing. They all pushed through huge spending bills. They have an excuse for every bad decision and stupid law they pass. They are all pawns. Obama is a pawn. He's overseen the largest expansion of government in history, while the "party of small government" did worse than nothing, they helped him!