03-06-2017, 12:25 PM
(03-05-2017, 09:33 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I did my homework during the political season and I came to the conclusion that any of the three non-politicians -- Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, or Donald Trump -- would be better than the fourteen political clones the GOP trotted out for display.
I'm genuinely curious about this. What homework can you do for someone that doesn't have a career in politics? You can't look at there position history because they have not implemented or voted on any public policy. All you have to go on is their words, which in the case of Trump are constantly flopping around. He isn't at all conservative or anywhere near the positions the GOP has held for decades on most things. He isn't socially conservative though he has acquiesced to some of those demands to please the base (though making it a federal issue isn't very conservative), he's anti-free trade which has been a steady pillar in conservative and Republican agendas for a long time, he certainly isn't a budget hawk even though he makes those claims, the only thing he has going for him really is border security. He isn't even someone who is in favor of taking responsibility for his own actions.
There is a reason that many of the GOP folks that are actually conservative have been railing against Trump, so it just makes me curious when I see people saying he was the best choice out there who claim to be conservative.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
