Originally Posted by JesseQuinn

I get where you're coming from, and agree that Trump is a result (or less neutrally, a symptom) of larger legitimate issues, one of which is disdain and revulsion for the status quo where the same uber-privileged benefit regardless of whether the whitehouse goes blue or red.



I kinda agree with you. If so much wasn't at stake it would be kinda fun to see Washington in a panic if Trump was elected. All of their precious little power networks messed with? would be hella fucking entertaining.

Thing is though, Trump doesn't offer anything to remedy the issues that cause people to flock to him; he's the demolition candidate. Destruction can be necessary evil in furtherance of better, more constructive aims to follow, or it can be nihilism.

With Trump it is the latter. A Trump win won't resolve gerrymandering, it won't change the electoral college system. It won't bring back the middle class or decent-income working class jobs (another central foci amongst his base). He has no viable plan for any of this and his off the cuff opining in place of concrete, well-thought out plans would serve only to further stratify and fracture american society along class, citizenship and social race lines.

It also won't take the insanely high volumes of cash out of the nomination process, arguably one of the fundamental causes of all this.

For those who see appeal, not knocking you. I do see where you're coming from. To a point. either way I get an easy out as I don't have to vote.

I just honestly don't see the logic in electing a belligerent buffoon who, if he wins, will do so because of the money/media hype in the form of advertising dollaz for 24 hour news channels he brought to the table. aka the shit that helped get y'all here in the first place