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Super_Ideal_Rock
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Dancing Fire|1456968365|3998839 said:I want to vote for Clinton, but I don't want 4 more yrs of Obama policies if she leans a little bit towards the middle then she would get my vote.
Dancing Fire|1456968365|3998839 said:I want to vote for Clinton, but I don't want 4 more yrs of Obama policies if she leans a little bit towards the middle then she would get my vote.
kenny|1456959241|3998756 said:I totally understand disliking both and writing in a name.
But that passes up your chance to make your vote count.
Only the D and R candidates have any chance of winning.
IMO instead of writing in a name you should vote AGAINST who you feel is the worse major candidate.
A write in is a wasted vote unless you truly feel that both viable choices are equally bad.
Feeling they are equally bad is very unlikely.
packrat|1456964360|3998800 said:They both are the worst possible candidates, other than say..Cthulhu or the fricken Chupacabra, so I will vote against both of them, for the good of the country. Other people can vote to ruin the country, my hands are clean and my mind will be clean- and I fully believe both of them will do that-just in different ways. We need a do over. Seriously.
kenny|1457055090|3999377 said:packrat|1456964360|3998800 said:They both are the worst possible candidates, other than say..Cthulhu or the fricken Chupacabra, so I will vote against both of them, for the good of the country. Other people can vote to ruin the country, my hands are clean and my mind will be clean- and I fully believe both of them will do that-just in different ways. We need a do over. Seriously.
That means you do not get to complain ... for four years.
Whydoncha flip a coin?
Then, since America's going down the toilet if either C or T is elected, you have a 50% chance of getting to complain.
missy|1457095039|3999589 said:So I am not a registered Republican but neither am I a registered Democrat but I will answer this question.
I would rather vote for Clinton despite the fact I dislike her intensely. I feel she will do less harm than Trump who is volatile, unpredictable and if we were to believe half of what he says is true we would be in quite the pickle should he become President.
Having said that I do worry what will happen when/if Hellary (LOL Love that thanks JoCoJenn ) Clinton becomes President but in this case I do think it is the lesser of 2 evils.
Now I could very well be wrong and again only in hindsight (and maybe not since we won't be able to predict what would happen if Trump had become President) will we be able to guess if the right decision was made. But as of now I am dead set against Trump. I believe he is a dangerous person to become President of the USA.
Why oh why can't we get someone who is (somewhat at least) ethical and sensible and smart to run for President. Why are we stuck with such horrible candidates? I know most elections many of us feel that way but in this election it has never been more true. IMO.
missy|1457095039|3999589 said:So I am not a registered Republican but neither am I a registered Democrat but I will answer this question.
I would rather vote for Clinton despite the fact I dislike her intensely. I feel she will do less harm than Trump who is volatile, unpredictable and if we were to believe half of what he says is true we would be in quite the pickle should he become President.
Having said that I do worry what will happen when/if Hellary (LOL Love that thanks JoCoJenn ) Clinton becomes President but in this case I do think it is the lesser of 2 evils.
Now I could very well be wrong and again only in hindsight (and maybe not since we won't be able to predict what would happen if Trump had become President) will we be able to guess if the right decision was made. But as of now I am dead set against Trump. I believe he is a dangerous person to become President of the USA.
Why oh why can't we get someone who is (somewhat at least) ethical and sensible and smart to run for President. Why are we stuck with such horrible candidates? I know most elections many of us feel that way but in this election it has never been more true. IMO.
ksinger|1457096344|3999605 said:missy|1457095039|3999589 said:So I am not a registered Republican but neither am I a registered Democrat but I will answer this question.
I would rather vote for Clinton despite the fact I dislike her intensely. I feel she will do less harm than Trump who is volatile, unpredictable and if we were to believe half of what he says is true we would be in quite the pickle should he become President.
Having said that I do worry what will happen when/if Hellary (LOL Love that thanks JoCoJenn ) Clinton becomes President but in this case I do think it is the lesser of 2 evils.
Now I could very well be wrong and again only in hindsight (and maybe not since we won't be able to predict what would happen if Trump had become President) will we be able to guess if the right decision was made. But as of now I am dead set against Trump. I believe he is a dangerous person to become President of the USA.
Why oh why can't we get someone who is (somewhat at least) ethical and sensible and smart to run for President. Why are we stuck with such horrible candidates? I know most elections many of us feel that way but in this election it has never been more true. IMO.
A deep dive into that would take days, but right now the thing that comes to mind as the main reason for the problem, at least in the Republican party, is the extremist wing of the party, is big enough to drive anyone with a modicum of sense, OUT. They've been doing it for years now. The old cross-the-aisle guys who knew how to make compromises are about gone, and the ones that are left are cowed into submission. Compromise, the very basis of our government, is now seen as a defeat, rather than pragmatic or sensible. The other side is cast as evil, truly EVIL, making opposing them at every turn a moral imperative. And a lot of the electorate thinks that way too, or else Trump would not be the frontrunner. I'm truly amazed at how many people are that desperate for an authoritarian strongman, but it seems to be the case.
Hillary, well she has baggage for sure, but to cast her as unable to compromise or not sensible, would be incorrect. If anything she is TOO pragmatic and swings right when the pressures become too great, just like Bill. Sanders is that ethical person, and in spite of campaign promises, knows he won't get a quarter of what he says he wants to do. His mistake was calling himself a socialist of any stripe. He should have been calling himself a social democrat, because he is a New Deal Democrat who would have been completely unremarkable in the 1930's. The fact that he is seen as extreme today, shows just how far to the right the country has moved, and how little history most actually know.
Oops. Outta time - gotta dash!
Yssie|1457098697|3999625 said:Once upon a time - on PS - I laughed at the idea of Trump advancing. The thought of him becoming the republican candidate was so completely, utterly ludicrous...
Now I'm genuinely terrified to realise that I live and love a country wherein millions of people actually respect this nutjob and want him to be our president.