I'd have to actually see the poll questions to know what I think of the polls. However, I won't be surprised if Trump is re-elected (nor will I be surprised if he is defeated).
Washington politicians are simply not doing anything decisive, and we common citizens need them to break down the current elite and change things so that government policies start working for ordinary people again. When I was growing up, it was possible for one parent in the household to have a full-time job outside the home while the other parent stayed home to raise the children and take care of the house. That single salary paid for the house, two cars, two weeks of vacation and two weeks of sick leave, college tuition for the kids, food, medical and dental insurance, etc. If that's still possible anywhere in America, I haven't heard of where it is.
The 2016 choice was between someone who, for all that he is vulgar and just weird, doesn't represent that Bush II attitude. Obama turned out, for all his ginned-up optimism, to just be more business-as-usual. Hillary represented more of the same policies that put voters in their present situation. So Trump was a no-brainer...and he may be again if the dems don't wise up. It's not conservative or liberal policies per se that will persuade that cadre of independent voters that any candidate needs to persuade to win. It is, rather, policies that will bring back those days when it was still possible to enjoy life.
Trump is not enough to do that. It's going to just keep getting worse until the proverbial ****e hits the proverbial fan. I expect that'll be roughly another 10-15 years, and then there will be a real reckoning--literal blood in the streets and civil unrest. Probably not outright civil war, but that is at least a possibility.
Far too well-stated for the frothing, beady-eyed liberals that frequent this joint, but you're making the astute and proper observations.
What they continually fail to understand is that Trump represents a protest of the quagmire you so eloquently described. He is nobody's "hero" as they suggest, but he has become a sympathetic figure because he's fully exposed just how rotten and corrupt Washington is. I'm proud that America finally did something about it, even if it meant electing an unrefined curmudgeon like Trump, who can amazingly deal with the punches day after day without losing his determination.
Right now, they're panicking in fear over him just being allowed in the country club. They're watching black men support Trump at a 30+ percent rate, and it's got them rattled to their core. It's all coming unraveled.
Hence, attempt after attempt at inventing reasons for impeachment.
But most voters see through all this. They aren't like the ilk here. They're well-employed, and not of the part-time or seasonal variety. They're paying lower taxes, despite the lies of Nancy and her crew. They see it in their damn paychecks! They agree immigration is a problem. They agree that trade is unfair and costs American's jobs. They agree that grown men shouldn't pee in the same bathrooms as 12-year-old girls, or run in the same track meet as women. They believe in natural pronouns. They don't believe that everything shouldn't be about racial and sexual identity. They believe Star Wars should still be able to depict a male in a position of power in the rebellion, LOL.
They're going to vote for what their life currently looks like, which is pretty dang good right now.
And that will infuriate the participation-trophy-raised crowds, who are still writhing in their 2016 loss because their parents never taught them how to lose gracefully and go back to work for next time. It's driving this socialist/communist movement through the likes of Bernie and Warren, and they're taking over the Democrat Party in growing numbers.
Sadly, I also agree that violent times are ahead. Eventually, a purge of sorts will be necessary because the radical left won't accept their fate otherwise. Unfortunately, many of their kind have infiltrated powerful positions in the media, which champion and support their cause with propaganda and misinformation. Still, most of thinking America has wised up to this, which is making the media even more incensed and radicalized. They're literally cannibalizing themselves into off-channel variety shows.
A hundred years from now, books will be written about all this. Will they be about the beginning of the end of America? Will it speak of another Bolshevik takeover in the world? Or, will it be about how America gathered itself and held to its values and pushed the left back into its little corner?
