@RoboBlue:
I'm a lot more worried about Trump refusing to step down if he loses to Biden (or refusing to step down in 2024) than I am about the Democratic Party leadership's problems.
…Or whatever else happens if he wins.
I say this after having felt the same thing about Trump being elected, but I don't think this could possibly happen, and it it were to, it would be the beginning of a vastly different America. A United States in which a president doesn't step down becomes a United States at war, which becomes a United States vulnerable to all of its greatest enemies. There's probably enough dumbasses around the states that would support Trump trying dumb shit like that, but the military leaders are nowhere near that stupid, even if it was a means toward martial law. We have too many enemies and the cost of huge mistakes is too high.
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@Kaba:
It's not about Trump's refusal to leave office that I'm worried about, it's his support base that just might be crazy enough to support his refusal to leave office.
I'm not worried about Trump not leaving office, but I am worried that if Trump were to lose, they would respond with violence. As much as the right parroted talking points about the left's response to Trump's election back in 2016 and 2017 as being unfounded, they were mostly peaceful. Antifa might through a wrench into that idea, but I don't think they were anywhere near full steam by that point.
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@RoboBlue:
Trump is heavily implying that the uninsured will be given coronavirus treatment for free, which puts him to the left of Biden and Pelosi on the issue of healthcare and will probably be an effective way to capture some Sanders and Warren voters if Biden wins.
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I imagine that if Trump were to seriously propose this, Biden and Pelosi would go more to the left. I don't think he will because this has happened before. He seemed to be more left than the GOP on the trans bathroom issue but pretty quickly changed his mind. I doubt he'll go against those with power and money now, either.
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@joekido:
None of the Democrat candidates are appealing for me to vote for. Biden is like Donald Trump while Sanders is too old and frail that he won't last 4 years in office.
Biden is much more to the left than Trump and isn't a racist pig who assaulted women. I think that's enough of a difference.
I definitely know who to vote for this year and I hate to say it, as much as I dislike Trump, I'm casting my vote on him. Let me explain my little history. Back in 2012, I voted for Mitt Romney so Obama would leave office but that never happened but I got a gut feeling Obama was going to stay for another 4 years.
Back in 2016, I voted for Hillary Clinton so Trump will not win, however like with Obama I got a gut feeling that Trump is gonna win however I ignored it and guess what folks? That orange ape won.
So I have a few questions here. First, why did you vote against Obama in 2008? Romney is a much more principled man than Trump in theory, but the political results of either being president wouldn't be much different. Also, what's the relevance of the gut feeling about Obama? Yeah, he won, what does that have to do with your vote?
As for 2016, it seems you saw Trump as a piece of shit and voted against him. Are you conservative? That's fine, but what did you see in Trump that made him so unpalatable then, that has changed now? Also, again, i don't understand you referring to the gut feeling. Is your goal to always vote for who will win, or are you voting for who you think will better govern the country?
I'am tired of casting my votes basing on emotions, they always ends up wrong and I'm not going to cast my vote on lesser candidates. At this point, Trump is the sigh only "credible" man to stay president until 2024 and hopefully by then the Republicans and Democrats finally realize they need to change and select better candidates that can do the job.
It truly sounds like you're tired of voting for who loses? Who gives a fuck if you are voting on your principle?! Is Trump's immorality really more credible than Bernie's age or Biden's political similarity to Trump? (which is silly) As for the Democrats and Republican's selecting better candidates, they tried! Trump was no one's choice, even the rotten ass GOP. They would have much rather had Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or Jeb Bush. The Dems were certainly for Hillary in 2016, but lots of their preferred candidates made it to Super Tuesday. (Kamala Harris, who was a great candidate, Cory Booker, Julian Castro) Shit happens, America will merica.
I've been criticizing Trump on my Facebook, can't wait to criticize him another four years. To be fair though I criticized Obama in the past and other presidents as well.
If your critiques of Trump are so hollow that you can't convince yourself, I don't understand what the point is.