Trump is the best thing that's happened for politics.... If you're on the Liberal side. No way he can win a general election so that pretty much guarantees a Dem in the WH..... they are all crooks but at least one side of the crooks leans more towards helping citizens and the other big business.... I say help citizens.
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Are you equating slavery to gay marriage? How insensitive of you. You have just minimized the suffering of an entire race of human beings.
Shame.
Shame
Shaaaaaaaaaaame!!!!!
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How do you think every law in this country is passed. A "majority" of the house and the senate vote on a bill and then it is signed into law. The majority decide how the rest of us will live.
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One could argue that he wasn't as greedy as he could have been. From that perspective all the line on here should be praising his name.
As much as I don't want him to be president, watching Trump's rambling victory speech he called Cruz "lying Ted" and Rubio "little Marco". That's priceless!
EDIT - and some of the stuff he says does make sense! Someone needs to be tough on China who run roughshod over the rules Western countries have to follow, and the US healthcare system is a mess!
EDIT - and some of the stuff he says does make sense! Someone needs to be tough on China who run roughshod over the rules Western countries have to follow, and the US healthcare system is a mess!
Just on the subject of "tyranny of the majority" --
The fear of tyranny of the majority was real, thus the Constitution's efforts toward protecting individual rights. From Madison to Jefferson discussing the Bill of Rights :
http://law.onecle.com/constitution/018-bill-of-rights.html
(See sec.8 (4) of the shaded section.)
This...
The POTUS is becoming more of a figurehead. Congress still pretty much controls what happens (or doesn't).
The general population has just become insensitive to the day to day (un)actions of Congress.
Unless it's pork barrel politics or NIMBY, they just don't care. I guess this is where Trump is leaning on the 'poorly educated' to propel him to a win.
The size and diversity of our population has led us to this edge of the cliff. Not that it is a bad thing, but maybe the scales need to be tipped back to the average American.
I have voted in many elections, but my status in life is what I make of it and make decisions that are best for me.
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At this point, i would agree with you. I live in an area where Intel has a 7,000 person campus. Now don't get me wrong, as I do believe in diversity, but the influx of H-1B visas in my area has caused the rental market to increase by 10% while not allowing for many locally educated persons to gain employment.
So why we still talking about it if we solved that issue 239 years ago?
Neither slaves would be freed nor would homosexuals have the right to marry if the rights of the minority were left to a popular vote. Don't try to hide behind unfounded claims.
Let's try a example:
If Apple's excessive net profits were capped, they would have ZERO capability to generate revenue or compete in anything.
That's because Apple would have gone bankrupt in the mid-1990's without Billions of decadently excessive profits from the Apple II product line in the bank. (The came really close about the time Jobs returned.)
Same is true for a large number of current tech companies. Lots of moderately profitable companies just vanish during downturns.
Most U.S. university and public employee pension fund venture capital units would also be broke or near broke if not for a few obscenely profitable corporate investments in the portfolio to make up for all the other loses. Thus leaving vast numbers of old retired people poorer.
Nice recipe for a dead economy. That's why the most honest decent one in the whole bunch (Bernie) would ruin the country if elected. He's not a businessman.
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Excellent point. The voters can now choose between someone who knows how to pay off power brokers said:
Alright, I guess I agree that even I could make Billions from Millions. I think Trump tries to make it look like he started with $1 Million - which is still a very nice point to start for anyone today let alone 30 years ago.
Anyway, I don't care that much, I was just curious about the calculations. What I learned here is that he seems to have been a multimillionaire for longer than I thought
H1b is not cheap labor, it is skilled worker visa. any company that gets an h1b have to submit proof that this person is paid within market bands.
some 'professionals' a re pissed because someone from a country thousands of miles away comes over, does a great job and 'steals' their jobs, or worse yet becomes their boss, all legal. They one day can become citizens too, without the need for anchor baby or marriage
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correct! It's actually 40 years not 30. A million in 1975 is over $4 billion dollars in today's money, just check inflation calculatorAlright, I guess I agree that even I could make Billions from Millions. I think Trump tries to make it look like he started with $1 Million - which is still a very nice point to start for anyone today let alone 30 years ago.
Anyway, I don't care that much, I was just curious about the calculations. What I learned here is that he seems to have been a multimillionaire for longer than I thought
1975 was the year Mr John Bogle started the Vanguard group and the world first index fund for investors ; if trump put that money in the Vanguard 500 and stayed home, he would have been worth 11 billion dollars more today than he actually is
I think a lot of things are subjective, but this is a special case...if he were elected president it would prove democracy is a failed system
Whoever is elected has a long way to go before they fail as badly as Tea Pot Dome, Bay of Pigs, or Watergate. Yet democracy survives.
And who said something like: "Democracy is the absolutely worst system... except for everything else humans have tried."
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It's better to accept a good but ultimately imperfect system that produces the occasional bad result than it is to try and replace it with something that strips people of their agency in order to better protect them from themselves.
...man, I need to find a way to get that into a fortune cookie.
I was in a restuarant over the weekend. In the background there was a TV on CNN. The volume was off, there were subtitles but I didn't read the. The thought popped into my head "here is the next Hilter rising to power". This isn't really a conscious though I've ever justified in my head.
I'm a fiscal conservative, I don't think Trump will be the end of the world- thankfully powers are divided, but I can't see much good coming from his presidency. I see more division than unity. Much of the elected GOP doesn't like him and the obviously Democrats don't like him.
I'm a fiscal conservative, I don't think Trump will be the end of the world- thankfully powers are divided, but I can't see much good coming from his presidency. I see more division than unity. Much of the elected GOP doesn't like him and the obviously Democrats don't like him.
Or hallmark cards. Don't forget. Those things practically write themselves.
At this point and after experiencing all that comes with stupid people, I don't believe in democracy as much as I used to. I like that democracy is a kind of...check against corruption but at the same time, we aren't an informed public. We are an emotional reactionary "I'm on this team like it's football" kinda voting public. My confidence in the voting system is zero at this point
How could you call something, people are so eager to buy, a failure?
I don't think popularity contests usher in speedy enough change. Just my opinion. When a president or a candidate has to spend most of his time pandering to people who are too stupid to inform themselves on ANY of the issues, yeah...a lot of it is a waste of time. I have a lot of stupid opinions that I wouldn't expect anyone to agree with
I also think people need to stop having kids. Overpopulation is a thing and pretty soon we are going to be using up our resources and need the equivalent of two earths to sustain us at this pace.
I also think education in some form should be mandatory. I also think the entire structure of society is completely wrong and we are in a Wild West right now.
So yeah. Being told I'm wrong on something wouldn't exactly be a new thing
Look at it like this: it's not democracy you have a problem with exactly, so much as it is the conditions in society where it can fail. Our democracy has always been a fragile thing, and its flaws and downsides have been studied and pondered upon by people smarter than us for who knows how long now. In the end, all it takes is one charming demagogue to show up during scary times to turn it all upside down.
But at the same time, there really is no better choice in government for a free society. For good or ill, you have to allow people to be in charge of their own destinies, and accept the fact it won't always work out for the best. Really, when you get right down to it, all western governments tend to be about mitigation than perfection. They try to maximize freedoms, and hope everyone else comes out in the wash once everything else is said and done.
It's worked spectacularly for us so far, bumpy roads and BS aside. But right now, we're living in scary, unsure times, and that's when the system is strained its most. When people are most willing to sell out their freedoms to the first loudmouth who comes their way and offers something that looks like safety and comfort. It's times like this when you need to be fighting for it the most, because we've seen the alternatives, and they're a helluva lot less pretty.
You mean the immigrants that work cheaply for him don't have an H-1B visa.
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Trump thinks that protesters against him should be carried away in a stretcher. At least that's what he said on TV. But it's probably not his fault, it was just wrongly reported.
It's true he had money but he made plenty more and employs thousands - a good contribution to society
Donald Trump is winning these Republican races because people are voting for him.
Many feel that way, but please don't stop voting. You can't let it get you down, because there's too much at stake. The presidential primaries are important, but there are many judicial elections, DA posts, tax levies, and other local and state government candidates and issues which can have more subtle, but "more impacting your life" effects. And you know where a lot of people get their start? Those little Soil and Water Conservation District positions, and they work their way up the ladder. The next thing you know, you've got bike lanes and rain-swales, but potholes and roads aren't getting fixed and your bridges and infrastructure are crumbling, or that person from the Water Bureau is suddenly in your State Legislature, or your Treasurer runs for Governor. Every vote matters. Just think of them as things in your System Folder. Just hope it isn't malware.
Chin up, sport!
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If you had to vote -right now- and your choice is A: Donald Trump or B: Sarah Palin, who would you pick? (No abstentions allowed.) Go.
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