any union member who thinks that he's going to do anything good for union labor or labor rights in general is a bloody fool.
:shrug: from what they know of him, Trump is anti-trade and anti-mass/illegal immigration, both of which are policies that they support as being a means of protecting their income/status.
Unions Lean Democratic, but Donald Trump Gets Members’ Attention
he's the candidate of pissed off, anti-immigration neocons.
i think many of our politicians suck, and that idiot is definitely not my candidate.
:shrug: you are more educated and ideologically oriented. You read.
****, he can't even get simple punctuation right in a tweet, and i'm supposed to entrust him with the nuclear button? right.
The guy doesn't even know what the nuclear triad is, much less how to employ it.
However, if you point that out to his fans, they reply that he will have people for that, and that those of us who think that is important aren't "real America", but rather a buncha eggheads.
i'll agree that he's no establishment candidate. at least not until he starts looking inevitable.
Rich Lowry put it well:
...There is much argument about what really constitutes the establishment. The past few weeks suggest a simple acid test: If you look at Donald Trump and think, “There’s a man I can deal with.” If you tell yourself, “He’s utterly without principle and therefore encouragingly malleable.” If you wonder, “How can I keep my head down, and maybe come out OK during a Trump campaign or even a Trump administration?” Well then, you are a member of the establishment in good standing, and you’ve got a problem...
that one's a little more complex. i'm mostly jaded by the fact that it's pretty much either Republican or Democrat every time in every election. i don't see a way that this dynamic can produce anything close to a good choice.
The parties typically do a pretty good job of capturing the majority of the country and both shaping and following it.
The problem is that our country is controlled by idiots. I don't mean the politicians. I mean the hordes of people who vote based on bumper stickers, slogans, general feelings, and who their parents vote for.
That's why I called Marco Rubio as a plausible President back in 2011. Not because he was more intelligent, or more competent, or the best situated to the task of governing. Nope. Rubio's strength is that he talks pretty. The American people want someone to make them feel good about themselves and punish the people they don't like, so that they can be comforted and go back to watching reality TV. We don't want to get involved in a policy debate, we want someone to tell us about the rabbits.
but yeah, yeah. i look at who people support and think "what the ****?" sometimes. i still believe that democracy is the best system, but i hate that our version of it has been so gerrymandered and manipulated. i'm also annoyed that people tend to vote for a team rather than for a candidate.
more and more, I find political tribalism distasteful if not infuriating.
indeed we will. and **** me, but i'm going to watch the whole thing again this time. eventually, maybe i'll manage to give sweet ****all about it and devote my time to something else.
oh well. It's not like it's for the position of the most powerful person in the world, with immense influence via the deadliest military and the biggest economy in the history of mankind, or anything.
