Every candidate makes a bunch of promises to the electorate. Then when one of those candidates makes it to D.C the other side does everything in its power to obstruct the goals of said candidate. Then when said candidate fails to complete their goals due to the obstruction of the other side, the other side talks shit about how that candidate didn't follow through with their campaign promises. Yeah, that's because your side didn't allow it, asshole. Why would you criticize a candidate for being unable to accomplish things you refused to let them accomplish?
Confounding, I've been online for about 23 years now, and I started out sort of like you, and I only came online to a political chat room to find out why people re-elected President Bill Clinton even when he had taken advantage of more women than would fit on a huge yacht. The first thing I found out was that if you asked why, both sides would line you up against a wall and start taking pot shots at you for everything from low iq to being a radical for one side or another in politics. Even though I felt awful after a few hours of that, I still wanted to know why America re-elected a womanizer for President. Actually, 23 years later, nobody would tell me why, and I just hunkered down and shot back at whoever was shooting poison darts, because my parents raised me to not tolerate bullies. You get used to it. I chose to back George W. Bush because my husband's political party was Republican and because GW's Dad was likely a social friendly person to my own Great Uncle Neal, who was my dear Grandfather's brother and a Justice of the Peace in Houston, Texas. Silly reason? Well, no, not really. My Uncle Neal did not associate with bad people, but honorable to a sterling forge as silver and gold. That's how I knew George W. Bush would get my support, regardless of the price people at the NYTimes and Time Magazine forums and political chat boards of the day would send not only patronizing messages but hateful ones as well. I didn't mind, because it made me improve my vocabulary to know the definitions of words I'd never heard before, but which they spelled perfectly, even when spewing vitriol against me. They put no value on honor of other people and marginalized their loyal opposition posters as "morons," "imbeciles," etcetera.
Best wishes, Confounding. But when you're on the fence, you get fire from the bulls on both sides of the fence. <giggle> Just consider it an exercise in the growth of a sense of humor. The
ad hominems are even more graphic and profane now.
I do wish you well, but it is rather hopeless to do so. In wet weather the bulls can push over fenceposts and tred all over the person sitting on the rails.
Edit: spelling and clarification purposes only
