well my american friends, the world is watching - even though we've got our own shit going on. we're worried. please don't go full Drumpf
GOP is getting more and more regressive. The "elites" want to modernize, so the knuckle draggers are digging in. You should take a look at their platform if you haven't already done so. It's pretty much all Gays!, Transgenders!, and Abortionists!...and Benghazi. If I understand correctly they're planning and entire evening or Benghazi and another about Bill Clinton's infidelity at the convention. Trump doesn't really scare me at the outset, and he does less so every day. This is not a winning strategy.
the "what if" scares the shit out of me a lot. No one "expected" Brexit to happen, no one has expected a lot of other bad things. "People know better" is a common refrain. ... but what if we don't? "What is honoured in a culture will be cultivated there", said Plato, and The Donald (tm) is certainly honoured by a lot of people, as are people like him. I'm not likely to stop crossing my toes until the election is over.
Things move fast these days. If I go into Google and type in "Mike" the very first thing that it suggests is "Mike Pence." The New York Times has already written a very unflattering summary of the man that if even half of it is true, could really turn away a lot of voters on the fence. Someone told me yesterday that Trump was starting to catch up to Clinton in the polls. I don't know if that's true or not, but if it is, Mike Pence might be a step back.
Well... if he is, Pence is a much smaller step back than Gingrich or Chris Christi. Also Pence isn't a move to encourage the left or center to join Trump. Pence is an attempt to solve the "never-Trump-Republicans" problem. And it will probably help with that.Someone told me yesterday that Trump was starting to catch up to Clinton in the polls. I don't know if that's true or not, but if it is, Mike Pence might be a step back.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html It's not really that Trump is catching up so much as it is that Clinton is dropping the most recent polls.Someone told me yesterday that Trump was starting to catch up to Clinton in the polls. I don't know if that's true or not, but if it is, Mike Pence might be a step back.
Just know that the political parties have rooted themselves so heavily into our government, it has now turned into an effective battle - where the only thing that matters now is victory, and nothing but victory is worth negotiating. The problem with all the ideas both the Donkeys and Elephants are preaching is that they are all running away from the fundamental tenets that built our country. The political party system has devolved into a manic game. History is repeating itself. The fundamental problems are universal, and neither party will answer these problems with their point of view alone. A storm is coming.