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Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by api on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:39PM (#23317739)
I've gotta play devils advocate a bit.

The people I know who voted for Trump were not voting for him so much as against a set of policies that have been very profitable to Wall St. but awful for everyone else. Chief among these is the leveraging of foreign totalitarian states like China to break domestic wages.

I didn't vote for him because I don't think he is any different or has any solutions, but consider that a vote for Biden is a vote for the same Bush-Clinton consensus that will continue those policies.

Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by krapp on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:14PM (#23318039)
>but consider that a vote for Biden is a vote for the same Bush-Clinton consensus that will continue those policies.

And Trump hasn't really proven to be a vote against them. The status quo remains firmly entrenched, the rich are still getting richer, and the jobs aren't coming back from overseas (because sending them there was a decision made by businesses, not Congress.)

The more effective strategy would be to focus on changing policy at the state or local level, where it's actually created. We, and by 'we' I mean mostly Republicans (since I live in a state dominated by them,) need to move past this infatuation we have of the President as "CEO in Chief," and with maverick "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" types who promise to turn over the tables of the moneychangers and whip the fear of God into those damn effete Washington city-slickers.

We need to recognize that the office is a political office and that political experience, and experience in matters of law and diplomacy, is not a detriment. We're not electing someone to hang out with in a bar and play darts, we're electing a bureaucrat and giving them the nuclear football. And that there are two other branches of government to pay attention to as well.

We should have higher standards, is what I'm saying.