Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

If Hillary Clinton wins in November, it won’t happen because America has gotten over sexism or because the Democrats have forged a pathway to the future. It will be because she was nominated by the party that is dying slowly and somewhat politely, rather than the one that just blew itself up in public with a suicide vest. It will happen because many people will conclude they’d rather have a president they don’t particularly like or trust, but who is pretty much a known quantity, than a third-rate comic-book supervillain. Of such choices, history is made.

Two Despised Frontrunners, Two Dying Parties and a Deeply Broken System: How Did We Get Here?

 

People write crap like that every four years. The Republican and Democratic parties will be doing business at the same old stand when newborns today are my age.

 

Translated - the country would be better off if we all bought into what The Salon
opinion shapers were selling.

 

Only because neither gives a shit what "the American people" think or want.

 

They just happen to be right this time.

 

The people don't decide things, the people who vote do. Over two-thirds of the country has had a chance to express itself on the nominees of each party. So far, by wide margins, the folks who showed up to cast a ballot have decisively chosen Clinton and Trump.

 

And pretty much the entire slate of candidates is viewed as one of the weakest and/or least likable ever.

Let's not pretend "we" have much of a say in who the parties put forth.

 

If "we" don't have much of a say, that's because "we" are the people who didn't care enough to vote. There were what, 17 candidates at the start of the Republican campaign? Any Republican who couldn't find an acceptable choice out of 17 ought to consider changing parties. If the three who're left are so unpopular, how come they're left? Sanders is an odd candidate, but he spoke for a significant segment of Democrats and prospered accordingly. The allegedly most "unlikable" candidate, Clinton, has received over 2 million more votes so far than any other, Trump included. The longing of Americans of all ideologies for some Daddy (or Mommy) President who'll wave a magic wand to make life bipartisan sunshine and balloons is the most pathetic neurosis of our society. Every presidential election means choosing among a set of people who're very different from most of us, if only for their ferocious ambition. All have strengths, all have flaws. Assess them as best one can.

 

How many voters haven't been "exposed" to Hitlerry over the last 25 years?

Trump's "extreme negatives"'are much higher, despite a relentless campaign by the MSM to power-fellate him for the last year.

Which, after two or three weeks of shocking accuracy in the media on what a fucking pig he is, returned to full force today with embarrassing splooge-squirting over the new-improved "presidential" Trump.

 

They've decisively chosen Clinton. Trump has still been voted against by a 60% of the votes cast in the Republican primary.

 

You can *kind* of make that argument in the Democratic side this time around, I guess.

But on the Republican side, everybody ran and the establishment candidates got housed. The people had more say than ever. And as usually happens when "the people" get a say, they had so many different opinions that nobody could really win.