Here is my opinion, and I welcome yours, including Smart-Asses.
I think reasonably happy people, reasonably well-adjusted, self-reliant, motivated people tend to become Republicans.
I think unhappy, neurotic, very jealous people, whose natural inclination is to blame others for their problems, tend to become Democrats.
I think Liberty and Equality are not compatible. Because if you give a self-reliant motivated person the Liberty to fulfill his destiny, he will always do better than those who chose the easy way---such as live on the Federal Plantation and wait for the check. They demand Equality.....motivation is irrelevant.
No surprise here. Republicans tend to cling to the Ideal if Liberty. Democrats tend to love Equality.
There is about 10 percent of people who waver back and forth between these two Political Ideologies.
The Dynamics vary in cycles but the cycles repeat themselves over and over---and Socialism has failed every time.
That's relevant, because Socialists have now taken over the Democratic Party and they do not bring to that Extreme of Marxism--- the 10 percent of people who waver back and forth.
So, my prediction is: TRUMP wins, because the Democrats have gone Bat-Shit Crazy and the all-important 10% is not down for Bat-
Shit Crazy at this time.
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So, the real difference between Republicans and Democrats are that one set is unhappy, lazy, jealous, and Bat-Shit Crazy....and the other is not.
Just my opinion.
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Why is Trump's Grievance Politics so appealing to Republicans? American Carnage? We must build a wall? Insults, cruelty and brutality are the coins of the realm in Trump's Republican Party. Division, scapegoating 'the other', and denying science are not the actions happy, well adjusted people tend to follow.
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I gave my opinion, you gave yours, and it was reasonably civil and mature --for this board.
I don't know what you mean by "American Carnage"---but regular people would mean the 12-15 people who just got gunned down at a funeral in that shooting gallery called Chicago. Trump wants to do something to protect those 12-15 shot AT THE SAME TIME--a hail of gunfire!
The first duty of Government---go back to ancient Sumeria, to Babylon, to ancient Greece--the people decided to pay taxes First to provide for their mutual protection
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This is not, a Republican Concept only,
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Yes, we must built a wall, and then spend lots of money maintaining it and patrolling it because this Illegal Invasion that is absolutely going on is
the Principal thing that has brought down great civilizations in the past. Friedman said:
You can have a Welfare State or you can have Open Borders, but you cannot have both.
Let go of your feeling of unhappiness and jealousy long enough to think about it. You know the reason you want a bunch of Guatemalans to come in illegally is not because you feel sorry for them, its because you think they can be illegally registered to Vote for Democrats.
Rest of your post doesn't make enough sense to respond to. It's because you Democrats react only to your feelings, which as I have pointed out, are mostly negative--and you care nothing for reality or even facts, if they are inconvenient.