(06-10-2016, 10:42 PM)Ben Wrote: the real problem here as far as i am concerned is the two-party element of this- the idea that because one guy is awful, you now have to vote for the other guy (who may be just as awful or worse?)
alternatively, if there is a legitimate third party candidate (or more than one) then this problem dissolves. think about how fringe and weird trump seemed and now he has legions of folk behind him. it's weird, right?
I mean you're not really going crazy, I agree with you. it's always unsettling when an entire mass of people aren't intellectually mature enough to change their minds. although I fucking hate donald trump as a person and I definitely believe he's a shockingly dishonest, disingenuous, jackoff business man who does not have the everyman/woman's interest at heart, and is constantly pandering to a group of people, (like every politician) I can at least admit he brings to light some things that are clearly a huge issue I don't see many other people talking about. what's funny is that him and bernie had a lot more in common than people realize, but anyway.
the 'two-party element' is a huge reason for this as you said. sometimes I look at stuff from gawker which is clearly liberal/bernie leaning, and so stuff pops up on my facebook feed. and it seems I remember a few months back one of the writers implying republicans r dum because they were unwilling to change their minds, switching to the seemingly worse candidate (trump) when cruz and rubio were clearly not having success connecting with people. but now I'm seeing articles about this '#girlIguessimwithher' hashtag, not necessarily on gawker, which if you don't know is basically bernie supporters reluctantly becoming hillary supporters now because muh democrats I guess, and all of the sudden that line of thinking is endearing when it's the party you associate yourself with?
I didn't mean to imply that I was a huge bernie supporter and now I've just given up on the world, I just meant to say he was keeping it interesting for me. I will say though that he seemed like he was not more of the same and when he spoke, I at least thought he believed what he was saying, which is more than I can say for trump or hillary who make me cringe every time they open their mouths. and reading up on some of his policies and ideas struck me as very interesting and for the most part, achievable, although a lot of people strongly disagree. I even read up on trumps as well and as I said they seem to want to achieve the same things, they just have a very different way of doing it. I will admit I have not done much research on hillary at all though. I just don't know if I can bring myself to as she makes me just as nauseous and nervous as trump.
I will have to do some reading on this 'jerry johnson' you speak of, because I am not familiar with that name at all to be completely honest.
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