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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think the debates should be open to any candidate polling more than 1%.
That 1% is a LOT of people. And of course if you aren't part of the debates you don't get any media coverage and you can't win.
As for why I didn't vote Johnson this election...2 reasons.
1. Main reason is I've never seen anything like Trump in my lifetime. He is a political unicorn and represented the opportunity for a real citizen (not a politician or lawyer) to be President. And of course his economic ideas.
2. In 2012 Johnson seemed strong and focused. I really liked him and his open talk about freedom and being "Pro-Everything" when they asked him about abortion. He straight up said he was for FREEDOM and liberty for individuals. That spoke to me.
BUT...in 2016, he just seemed goofy acting to me. The media was so anti-Trump that they mistakenly thought that Libertarians all vote Republican and they thought they could split the Republican vote if they gave Johnson some air time.
So CNN gave him a town hall that they broadcast live and CNN and MSNBC interviewed him several times in prime time.
That is when they discovered (to their shock and horror)...that Libertarians are more socially liberal than Democrats by far.
They then began attacking the hell out of Johnson and burying him. lol
But as I said...he made himself look goofy. Making weird faces and giving dumb answers to questions they asked him.
So I looked at the non-politician with similar ideas to mine on economics VS the goofy guy who no longer looked strong and divisive in Johnson and went with Trump.
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first of all robbie, my big compliment for being that brave to be the one in the middle who takes the hits from both sited.
I really like to read your posting here they are very different to the extremes we have here.
you are also completely right with what you stand for - I think here is nobody who really would prefer Hillary if there would be another candidate.
But the fish starts to stink from his head - and I TOTALLY agree with you that this what is called democracy in US is not even in the near of that.
i can NEVER understand how it can happen that a candidate what is definitely getting fewer votes as his rival can win the elections and it is still called democracy.
this election system STINKS up to the sky and has to be reformed URGENTLY.
i mean there are not really perfect democracies in the world - I would say that the swiss democracy is at least the best existing (also not perfect) but that is FAR from what is present in USA.
I think humanly you have trump already well-recognized (even if it all sounds quite harmless from you).
But as far as professionalism is concerned, you are probably right next to it if you expect a better economy through it.
From the political point of view, he is doing pretty much everything wrong.
The disaster is that "normal people" are not able to see the backgrounds when they report a change in the statistical formula for calculating the foreign trade deficit on the margins. The normal citizen knows nothing about it and does not want to know it either.
So he does not know what immense document falsification and spreading lies is behind it.
He is already preparing a formula what will make the historical numbers worse and I am sure he have in mind to change that formula again after a period he is the oval office. What makes him look as the better one (and he knows already that he wonīt be that)
I do not know if you have read about that and because of the complexity of this theme, the popular media donīt even touch it in the headlines.
That kind of strategy has NOTHING to do with better economics and the ideas he has around that CAN NOT work because they are completely against all logic and the complexity of a global market.
This boomerang will not fall back only to the USA (but it will hit the USA most) it will bring the whole world in a crisis were the 2008 crisis was a kiddy game in compare.
Indeed I am quite sure, that also the republican party have some smart heads who can see that already and they are prepared for the day when they have to kick him out. But what happens AFTER him?
Generations of "next presidents" have to try to fix that again and it gives generations of "next presidents" an apology for their own inability because until then America will know that Trump was by far the most stupid idea they had in the past 500 years.