10-22-2016, 09:50 PM
(10-22-2016, 05:09 PM)ronsin Wrote: Trump will lose this election for a couple of reasons.
First, he never got out of the mud-slinging phase. At some point you have to focus on what you are going to do for the voters to make their lives better, and try to convince people on the fence and the other side that you may be a viable alternative. He has done none of that.
We expect solutions. Donald Trump has none.
Quote:Second, he picked the wrong running mate. To be fair, this may have been forced on him as the GOP may have removed him and inserted their own candidate causing a huge firestorm in the party and alienating the whole Republican voter base. He should have chosen Ben Carson IMHO. He is well respected by BOTH black and white communities, and would have went a long way towards unifying the party and bringing more voters to the cause.
Mike Pence would have been a good running mate for just about any Republican running for the Presidency, someone who could eloquently push the Tea Party agenda to people who didn't go for it in 2010, 2012, or 2014. But just think of the debate -- while he seemed reasonable enough, he was proved to contradict Donald Trump. So he couldn't defend the Trump foreign policy? As the Clinton/Kaine ad says, 'No problem. Neither can we'.
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Quote:Hillary will win, and then I will get to laugh when she tries to explain how bad of a system she inherited even though she has been in the White House for 16 of the last 24 years, creating this huge crap sandwich and it will be pure joy watching her eat every bite of it.WWIII and/or Civil War will be on us very soon, and she will have no one else to blame. Her campaign has been pure garbage as well. Calling half of the voters "deplorable" smacks of the total arrogance of someone who feels like she has the presidency in the bag, and doesn't need to convince them to vote for her or even try to reason with her side.
Wait and see. We are in a Crisis Era, and all sorts of crazy stuff is possible. But insulting as the word 'deplorable' is, people who see nothing wrong with a politician who has called for violence at his rallies, an inveterate liar, a bigot, a bad businessman who has been using his alleged acumen as a businessman as his qualification for President, a flaming narcissist, a crackpot on foreign policy, and above a sexual predator.
Decidedly fewer than half of the electorate will vote for him. Surely those people that Hillary Clinton has called 'deplorable' are simply deplorable in their political judgment They may be loving parents who take care of their kids. They may volunteer much in local good works. They may be doing the thankless task of taking care of an incontinent, demented parent. They may give heavily to charity. They might be wonderful workers on their thankless jobs. Even so their political judgment may go beyond deplorable to downright execrable.
Part of the potential craziness of a Crisis Era is that a demagogue like Donald Trump might seduce a scared, frustrated nation to vote for him.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.