RE: Drumpf?
August 4, 2016 at 12:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2016 at 12:35 am by SteelCurtain.)
(August 3, 2016 at 3:50 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Pfft only two options my ass. Sorry but Johnson is 2% away from getting into the debates. But you don't want to hear about good candidates you wanna hear about the lesser of two evils >.>
But still 35-40% behind nationally.
Sorry, but there are only two people who have a legitimate chance to be president. That's not to say that a third party vote can't be useful in certain states, but to think that there are more than two people who can be voted into the office is just naive.
For the OP, Clinton represents liberal values, yes. But she also represents stability. Trump, the man who cannot even back off grieving Muslim parents because they "attacked" him (like everyone else did at the DNC), the man who can't leave Twitter long enough to let a white supremacist tweet go un-retweeted, the man who scammed small business out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and military veterans out of tens of thousands of dollars and who had to be hounded to actually give the money to the VA charity that he promised it to---that man represents volatility.
He is an authoritarian---he doesn't in the least sense represent conservative government. His promises---literally everything he is talking about is anti-conservative and represents government reach into private lives. A religious test for entering into the country? Censoring private press? Telling people we'll all be saying "Merry Christmas" again? Abolishing Roe v. Wade? All of those things are government getting bigger and more restrictive to freedom. Reneging on national debt and forsaking NATO allies will be disastrous for European diplomacy, and his ties to Russia have to be scary. THAT will hurt your bottom line.
Lastly, if you like the Republican Party, I truly believe that voting for Hillary Clinton is the only way to save it. If Donald Trump wins or narrowly loses, he will have ignited that racist, bigoted, angry white base, and the GOP will be gone. It will fracture and who knows if they'll ever recover. If Hillary wins, the GOP will have another moratorium, learn nothing, and they'll change the party rules so that Donald Trump cannot happen again. Then they'll go about the business of obstructing in every way they can, blaming it on Democrats, and hyping it up for the next election.
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