Someone here will vote for Trump ?

Yep, looks like I'm voting for Trump...

 

If you think keeping a chart of who you top political allies are, those who were your top supporters then switched to back your opponent, or those who flat out betrayed you, is somehow unethical or immoral for a politician I don't know what to say to you.:smt069

All campaigns do it.

Washington, D.C. is the biggest bureaucracy in the world and if you don't know who you friends and enemies are, you're presidency or time as an elected official is doomed before it ever gets started.

Obama has had his policies and legislative agenda not only blocked by Congress, but also by conservative high level appointees across the city who because of their resentment of him refused to do their jobs.

Why do you think there were so many problems with the Secret Service and why Obama worked to get the director of the SS replaced??

That's called knowing who your enemies are and removing them.

Hillary can't put the entire Sanders coalition on a hit-list, that's the progressive base of the Democratic party.

 

I am well aware of the low standards that we hold our political leaders to in our society. In any other circumstance the keeping of a revenge list would be considered the act of a psychopath.

Anyway, since keeping Trump out of office is the real issue, and I'm not Bernie-or-bust. I guess I'm now a begrudging Hillary supporter.

So there I'll be come November.

 

Actually - the decline had started in the 1980's, FG. That was because people started to lose trust with one another at that time. For roughly the last 35 years, it has been declining not just there, but in many other indicators as well. Leaving the country is not going to solve your problems because international relations will worsen if Trump were to win the presidency.

 

It also has a pretty good balance of people that are insane/mentally ill as well.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...na-grimmie-shot-after-florida-concert-n590161

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...dent-caught-on-camera/?utm_term=.1b02e420585c

Beasty, you should've stayed living in DC. Florida is a mess!

 

Florida is a hot, touristy mess. I have to get out the first chance I get.

 

This is what I ate last night.









Chicago deep dish. I love it here!

 

This is the most disturbing .gif I've seen on the interwebz in a long time.:smt103lol

 

I feel it too. If it was Obama running for a third term instead of Clinton, this election would be the same way - if not even worse. Also, what I have noticed is that there is a lot of unrest within the Hispanic community due to Trump's rise (view the article below). Some of those things that I've seen over the past few days are quite bizarre. It showed people jumping on civilian cars, fighting police, destroying police vehicles, deployment of tear gas, grenades, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ws-deportation-threats/?tid=pm_national_pop_b

Do you think it is possible, that having multiculturalism leads to social unrest and truly doesn't work for us as human beings, regardless of where you are in the world? Look at Asia for instance. Asia is hypothetically 99% Asian. Japan. Japan is hypothetically 99% Japanese, etc.

 

WTF???

Seriously dude.:smt017

 

:smt042

 

Yes, we need to ask ourselves that here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/10/does_multiculturalism_work.html

 

Mikey, America historically has done a great job at assimilating different cultural and ethnic groups once they arrive in this country.

Unlike Europe.

In the U.S., there's an opinion that once we get that first generation all the way through HS, they're 'American citizens' whether their immigrant parents want them to be or not.

Europe is having problems because they've got that limousine liberalism; they want to help the world's poor and suffering but they aren't comfortable with them working and sitting down next to them at dinner.

 

Okay, you're right. Historically, America has done a great job with integration. Donald Trump could somewhat defy that however if he wins. Regarding people as of now, I'm not sure if it's the internet outlets that empower half of all the users to express their negative feelings towards non-whites behind the anonymity of their computers or if that's representative of real world, public resentment against people of color advancing (ie - Obama campaigning for Clinton, black lives matter and the Cato Institute highlighting police misconduct, a BW being awarded Miss USA this year, Donovan Livingston's Harvard grad school speech, etc.).

 

It's a combination of both, but extra emphasis on internet anonymity.

And it's not just limited to racial resentment. Any & everyone no matter the race, with any ill views or resentment towards anyone that does not look or think like they do for any reason is a target. It's one of the main reason why participation on this very site is currently shit.

 

Fun fact: Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl. Barry Goldwater...a known segregationist. She has disavowed her association with that racist but ti's something to think about.

 

SMH. Hillary used to be a Republican as a young woman then 'grew up'.
She supported Goldwater's presidential campaign, but not because he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

You talk like Hillary was a top Goldwater aide in 1964 when she was 17 years old.:smt021

People are really working overtime to paint Hillary as a closet KKK member.

 

Wow!

 

It's mass hysteria :smt088