Who are you voting for in 2016?

[Kinser79]

(05-07-2016, 04:19 AM)Galen Wrote:

(05-07-2016, 01:02 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: I'll be voting for Trump.  Mostly cause I hate Shillary with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and a third party vote is a vote for Shillary.

The fact that the neocons are all going for Clinton is a point in your favor.  I would feel better if I knew why Trump is running.  Professional politicians are easy to figure out where their motives are concerned.  It has been very hard to work out why the Donald is running and I still don't have an answer.  It could be for altruistic motives which I trust much less than naked self-interest.

Yes, altruism being self-deception or something like that...

I'm not sure why he picked now, why not 2000 when it was rumored he would on the Reform Party. I do know he's been dissatisfied with the status quo for quite a while, he's had political views contrary to the majority of Republicans and Democrats since the 1980s and almost all of them of an isolationist, America first bend. The only reason I can come up with his timing is he was waiting for the time to be right. Like Churchill is reputed to have said "You can count on the Americans to eventually do the right thing, but only after they have exhausted all other options."

The right thing of course being:

--Secure the boarders and ports of entry
--Disentangle from the entangling alliances
--Withdraw US forces from foreign countries unless those countries pay us for defending them
--Stop trying to be the world's policeman
--Establish trade relations that are favorable to US industries
--Build up the internal infrastructure to facilitate more efficient industry and commerce.

The only reason I can come up with is he's had it up to his eyeballs in the cuckold-ery that's been happening for decades. Unlike Cruz, Jeb, Shillary, or any of the others (excepting Sanders, but with Sanders I think the message was right the methods though were post-seasonal) I do come away with a sense that he is genuinely a patriot in the sense that he's not going to sell America out to the Chinese or whomever else. I've not sensed that from any political candidate for President since George H. W. Bush. W might have had a measure of it, but it was outweighed by his obvious stupidity.

He is the only candidate in my lifetime to have actually said that he loves the people who are voting for him, supporting him and so on and it come off as he's completely genuine. Yeah, Bill had "I feel your pain" but it came off to me as shaking babies and kissing hands.