05-17-2016, 11:34 AM
(05-16-2016, 11:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-16-2016, 11:29 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-16-2016, 09:53 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Trump: Divide et impera is his idea of how to handle ethnic and religious difference in America. Such is for swine, and it usually implodes.
Quite so. I just hope that after Republicans warm up to having a demogogue and race-baiter as their standard bearer, that Democrats warm up to have Hillary Clinton as theirs. She is not corrupt or untrustworthy, as the propaganda against her claims. People need to get behind her and keep the mad dog out of the Big House. I don't want a president who sends everyone he doesn't like to Guantanamo Bay and tortures the families of our enemies. He is a loose cannon and we don't know what we're getting if Americans are fool enough to elect this guy. But then, Americans are fools whenever they vote Republican today.
The Republican Party now has a Frankenstein monster. If one wants a cause, then it lies in a quest for ideological purity without care for integrity. The Establishment had some subtlety in its use of code words; the masses have little use for subtlety. The masses want its bigotry raw. A Presidential nominee who speaks of prosecuting his opponent in the general election sets a dangerous example that could well tempt his successors -- whether Democrats or Republicans.
Trump has many problems, but ideological purity is not one of them. That would have better fit Cruz, but he is gone for now.
… whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Phil 4:8 (ESV)