06-04-2017, 07:26 PM
(06-03-2017, 08:29 AM)ballsofsteel Wrote: Good morning gentlemen. The other day I was thinking back to the Republican Primary. I feel guilty now but back then I loved watching Trump in action. I watched every one of those "debates" and it was some very entertaining shows. Trump's insults and slur's against the other "contestants" were funny as hell. The deer in the headlights look on many of their faces plus the fact that many looked scared that they we be next. The one's who tried to talk shit back only made it worse for them. I'm not laughing now because back then I never thought in a million years a guy like Trump would get elected. Never say never. For not being a politician Trump acted like a experience one by getting down in the mud and saying and doing anything. How about the one debate with Hillary where Trump had those woman that Bill supposedly abused sitting in the front row. WTF. Wonder if anyone else enjoyed watching Trump dismantle the rights best in those primaries?
Nope. As much as I dislike the GOP, and everyone that was one those stages, what we saw was evidence of a continued dumbing down of our country and its politics. Left and right we are seeing a distancing from evidence based policy decisions. It used to be that even though the majority of the public voted more with their gut, our elected officials at least had some reason to their decisions. Now the American public seems to not want that, well, at least a large segment of it. I fear for what future this will bring.
"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
