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Originally Posted by Azure
You make the mistake of thinking that because I have issue with Hillary I would support Trump. I support neither.
I think the American people have been caught again in the whole 'lessor of two evils' approach to politics, and the result will be 4 more years of failed policies. What is hilarious is how everyone suddenly think Hillary will be 'great' for America. She has NOT been great till now, and will not be great once she is POTUS.
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I hate this mindset. Being POTUS is one of the hardest jobs in the world. A lot is riding on every single decision. Sometimes they don't work out, but the vast majority of choices work out well, not only for the U.S., but for the majority of the world. It isn't that all these policies fail, but they are imperfect, mostly because they won't always apply to everyone. Such is the nature of governing large bodies of people. However, the vast majority of Americans have good, no, GREAT lives, especially compared to the rest of the world. Just because things are imperfect doesn't mean that things are failing. It's not dichotomous.
But what you want is to try and make a "more perfect union" to borrow the phrase. You want to see problems and attempt to address them without destroying what you've already built that seems to be working well. This is what Donald Trump wants to do. He wants to go back to the Good 'Ol Days of the 1950s when white men dominated the country and nobody else's problems were even considered. That's what he means by "Make America Great Again", great for white men of his generation. Or, if I'm being generous, he simply wants to be in power for the sake of his own ego with no real intention on governing (I remind you of the VP offer he made to Kasich to handle both international and domestic affairs....which is pretty much everything).
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that this isn't a choice between the "lesser of two evils" in the traditional sense of politics, this is a choice between a career politician who is imperfect, but is at least trying to do the hard job of governing, or a megalomaniac who was bored with making money by screwing people over and working the system, and decided to run for office presumably for ####s and giggles.
The fact that people can't see that a vote for Hillary isn't necessarily because they love her so much or that she's earned it, it's because a vote for Trump might lead to the end of the U.S.A. as we know it (that's not a good thing BTW).
OH, and BTW, I've heard Gary Johnson speak many times. He's an idiot and isn't qualified to be president. That would be a terrible 3rd party candidate. It's not like we're talking about Ralph Nader here.