People like Poop might be surprised to hear this because they think that anyone to the right of Lenin is an alt-right confederate flag waving gun-toting Trump-apostle. But I actually find the notion of a Trump presidency pretty disgusting. I'm not exactly proud that a sleazy celebrity holds that office. I wish Trump weren't president.
But we need him, because the thought of a Hillary presidency is much more intimidating. Trump is president because of the grotesque social overreaches and pitiful economic failures of the Democrat party. Turns out that most of the country doesn't share the same progressive openness that they have in New York and Los Angeles. It turns out that most people don't like being told that their opinions don't matter because they're tainted by 'privilege'. It turns out that most people prefer NOT to engage in a game if identity politics that seeks to label victims and oppressors. It turns out that some people actually care about preserving the ideals of individual rights, freedoms, responsibilities, and opportunities. And it turns out that they'd rather not sacrifice all of that in favor of bullshit equity doctrines.
The democrats went form 0 to 100 mph after 2008, and they had to be stopped. The republicans sent out Mitt friggen Romney dude. Do you remember what happened? They knew that a highly qualified, massively intelligent, impeccably moral person would destroy Obama in a fight over policy. They knew they couldn't engage him on issues. So they took this choir boy who's probably hasn't said the F word since the turn of the century and made him out to be tax-cheating hitler who just wanted to fire everybody and outsource all the jobs.
What did you think was gonna happen after that? If the overwhelmingly qualified and eloquent Mr. Romney couldn't get the country's attention on the republican party, how do you think the GOP would have done with Jeb Bush???? Cmon man. Use your brain.
Trump didn't get where he is because his supporters are stupid and think he's a "very stable genius". We put Trump there because HE IS THE MURDER WEAPON. Dems wouldn't pay attention to Mitt, but we got their fucking attention now don't we?
Now this can go two ways
A) Democrats can own their own baggage and say "whoa! maybe we pushed the social justice stuff a little too hard. maybe we should just embrace a more moderate stance and focus on advocating for the legitimate causes of the working class"
or
B) Democrats can double down on the demagogue rhetoric about privilege, patriarchy, hate, racism, fascism, and all those other words the angry college kids like to use but don't actually know what they mean.
Only one of those strategies will win in November, and in 2020. If your'e against Presdient Trump, fine...I get it. But your problem isn't with Trump, or the republicans. Your problem is with the out-of-control leftists who are doing everything possible to cram a post-modern interpretation of the world down your throat and make you believe that society is nothing but a power-driven hierarchy designed to oppress certain groups.
Engage on the issues, and stop with the divisive, tribalistic demagoguery.
either that............or get ready to salute President Hannity in 2024
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Originally Posted by BananaStand
