| mtu9356 said: Let me start by saying that I won’t be voting for either candidate. I just wanted to point out the dirty games that both parties play during election season. We are witnessing the strategic takedown of Trump in the media by the DNC. Take a look at CNN for example. All these videos of Trump have been “surfacing” over the past few weeks and specifically the past few days. Every few hours it seems CNN has a new Trump headline story. These videos/sound clips have existed for years and only now are they being brought up. Strange coincidence that there has been a steady stream of them since Wikileaks dumped 2000 of Hillary’s emails. Point is don’t let them cause you to forget how unqualified and untrustworthy our next president (Hillary Clinton) is. When I was a teenager I used to see Democrats as the 'good guys' and Republicans as the 'bad guys'. This election and the last couple have helped me realize that I was wrong. Both Democrats and Republicans are 'bad guys'. |
There's just one little thing which is that Hillary is infinitely more qualified to run the country, and more trustworthy than Trump. Trump doesn't understand most of the issues, and is a chronic liar. If you're not going to go out and vote, and vote Trump out from running the country, you are a bad guy.
The idea that Democrat or Republican politicians are "good" or "bad" guys is a mindset to try and get out of. This "us" vs "them", "people" vs "politicians" is a mindset perpertrated by fear mongering in the media. There are many good, moral, qualified people to run our cities, states, and country on both sides. The Trump populus has been misled using fear tactics to support a candidate that is not of moral character or qualified for high office.
Trump has appealed to the blue collar populus by promising to keep more of their minimum wage jobs from being out-sourced out of the US. A false idea: many of these jobs will be replaced by automation both in the US and out. When what was 5000 people in a factory is replaced by 100 people and automation; the location is unimportant anymore. The factories will be placed close to where the products will sell. Trump actually has no proposals that will help Blue Collar cities through these very difficult transitions.
Meanwhile he is proposing enormous tax cuts to the 1%. This would do nothing but increase the share of the pie for the owner class. If you were a worker building air conditioners for Carrier (one of Trump's favorite companies to bring up), how would you feel getting a $50k or $100k pay raise? Freaking amazing right? Well sorry, that's what Trump is doing for the 1%... for the Carrier worker all he's getting is some hope that his minimal wage job won't be outsurced.
