(January 25, 2016 at 3:47 pm)A-g-n-o-s-t-i-c Wrote: Do you want Donald Trump will be USA President?
When W was running, I said I would vote for Pluto (Mickey Mouse's dog) before I'd vote for W.
But now, I would vote for W. before I'd vote for Trump. That goes to demonstrate my low (i.e. in-the-toilet) opinion of Trump.
I can't say I am thrilled with Hillary, but she isn't spouting doom like a fire-and-brimstone preacher. She isn't claiming she is the best at absolutely everything. (Trump reminds of of religious folks who think they've found the one true religion with all the right answers.) She isn't encouraging violence at her rallies. She isn't making being a racist or bigot acceptable again. She isn't bullying everyone who disagrees with her.
Trump has scammed people out of their savings at Trump "University" and refuses to pay what is owed to contractors ---and has the nerve to call Hillary "crooked!"
I've read several articles by people who have known and worked with Trump. He never reads. He has an attention span of less than 10 minutes. He asked Kasich to be the "most powerful vice-president in the history of the country" ---who would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy ---in other words, do his job for him. (Kasich was smart enough to refuse.) Republicans worried about "socialist" Bernie, yet Trump seems to love and admire dictators and despots who run their governments with an iron hand, yet they claim to want less government.
No matter what party is in power, the only way we can accomplish anything in this country is to work together. By being hateful and divisive, Trump is splitting us apart even more.
And it just baffles me that the GOP leaders who support him claim to be for freedom, democracy, morality, family values, and to love and support our war heroes..... and yet they support someone who is the antithesis of all of that. None of them have the courage to stand up for what is right. It's all party before country.
The disenfranchised who support Trump don't seem to be bothered that the economic problems they face are due, at least in part, by the economic divide, and yet Trump wants to lower taxes on the rich even more. (The shortfall will be on the rest of us.)
I'm also concerned that Trump will do something so stupid and unconstitutional that he will be impeached. (Trump even implied that if he doesn't like the job of president, he might resign.) And then we'll have a nut-job, tea-party Christian in President Pence ---the guy who thinks it's ok to discriminate against anyone on religious grounds.
“The problem with those who choose received Authority over fact and logic is how they choose which part of Authority to obey. The Bible famously contradicts itself at many points (I have never understood why any Christian would choose the Old Testament over the New), and the Koran can be read as a wonderfully compassionate and humanistic document. Which suggests that the problem of fundamentalism lies not with authority, but with ourselves.” ~Molly Ivins
