Face it. It is over. Trump won.

[EricHiggin]

Final-Fan said:

EricHiggin said:

Obama says Hillary should be POTUS because shes in the same party. Plain and simple. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. It's politics and that how it works, so no, that's not what I meant. Back in those days, people didn't live their lives based on politics, it was just another part of their lives. Always being politcially correct was not normal. Just look at the barbaric wars they had. There was no, we have to look like the good guys even though we're here destroying your country and taking your wealth. They just went in and took what they wanted, end of story. This is why Caesar decides not to choose his Son instead of the General, because its the right thing to do for the people, end of story. Does this mean Hillary will end up POTUS anyway like in the movie? Possibly yes.

The comparison is ridiculous and I picked the first obviously wrong thing that occurred to me to contradict your claim that Trump's situation "follows the plot line very closely." 
—King dies//President's second term running out—Similar, although Clinton didn't backstab Obama.  Would have been a good parallel if she had run against him after his first term to try to replace him before his second term. 
—King handpicks successor but his wishes are not honored//Obama doesn't take sides between Sanders and Clinton until there is a clear winner, but backs Clinton versus Trump—Not similar, especially with Trump as your choice for the general.  If anything, Trump blitzing his way through the Republican establishment taking everyone off guard seems more of a usurpation than what Clinton did.  And the whole reason the kid backstabs the old emperor is that he was backing someone else as his successor:  this would be like Obama really backing Sanders to the hilt against Clinton, which didn't happen. 
—General is sentenced to death for not going along with usurpation, but escapes, eventually winding up as a slave fighting as a gladiator—Obviously none of this even remotely resembles Trump.  And this is the main plot of the movie. 
—Gladiator gets famous fighting, meets evil emperor, and they scheme against each other.  The conflict becomes physical and they kill each other—To the extent that there was politics involved and they were enemies, there is some vague similarity, but Clinton isn't President yet, and presumably someone will actually win the election. 

Please explain in more detail how this situation "follows the plot line very closely".

P.S.  The Roman Empire was incredibly political among its ruling class. 

-Clinton doesn't backstab Obama: Except for all the times she's been critisized for going along with Obama's decisions happily back then, that contradict what she wants to do now, only to tell the public she was completely against it and it was the wrong decision, now that she's running for prez.

-Kings term running out: This follows the plot the least yes, but has to be looked at in general. Its not the fact that the guy in charge picked the next in line, its that the right person for the job who is not politically corrupted is a candidate.

-General sentenced to death: Much like how Trump was the joke of the entire world when the campaign began, practically sentenced to a political death by the media, and some of the population, yet here he still stands.

-Gladiator fighting: Based on what I've seen over the years in terms of how brutal the campaigns have been, this one is definitely up there in terms of low blows and hostility. Both candidates are tearing each other apart and it doesn't do much good for either of them. 

As for the Roman Elite being political, I never said they weren't. I just simply said politics were different back then in the way that not everything in life was looked at from a political standpoint. Where as today, politics comes into play with everything and with the global media, making one false move can put you in deep water quick.