Ok, beyond what I’ve already said tonight, the problem with Trump thus far is this: when you look at every republican president since 1980, there is very little to no difference between them in policy, narrative or style, Trump included.<\/p>\n
Always, it’s the same shtick, over and over again. You see a reformed liberal become “conservative” and win the presidency on some dumb, unthinking “law and order” and militaristic platform, like… Nixon did, basically.<\/p>\n
It’s always the same damn thing. It never changes, and people everywhere are beyond sick of it.<\/p>\n
I understand a lot of the anger that the more liberal types feel towards Trump. He’s boorish and not very respectable as an intellectual, in the same way that Reagan and Bush the younger were.<\/p>\n
Through his campaign, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After all, he’s a self-made billionaire, so I thought, surely<\/i> he’s just doing it for votes. Underneath it all, of course he’s secretly brilliant, and we’ll all see that side of him once elected.<\/p>\n
Ugh. Joke’s on me, I guess. Well, joke’s on everyone, it seems.<\/p>\n
It’s always the same platform. Big government=bad and wasteful, except for by far the biggest and most wasteful government dept. of all, the military. That one is literally always good.<\/p>\n
And the rest of it. Promise the country one thing, and then deliver the other, over and over again to the point that doing so becomes tradition.<\/p>\n
This stuff is just pissing everyone off across the political spectrum, and it needs to end.<\/p>\n
This endless regurgitation of the same old stuff, over and over again, was at least part of the reason for Ron Paul’s popularity. He was a GOP candidate that actually dared to try something different for once, and people respected that and listened.<\/p>\n
So, NOW what? It looks as though we’re going to be getting 4 more years of standard-issue GOP nonsense, yet again. And THEN what? Oprah? Her name is being bandied about by a good number of former supporters of Hillary, as though that would be a change from Trump, somehow. Honestly, Oprah<\/i>? A billionaire who made her name in the 80’s through a connection to talk shows, an occasional acting gig, and trashy reality TV? Wouldn’t that be just Donald Trump, all over again, yet again?<\/p>\n
So, if not Oprah, who, then? Hillary, yet again? Biden, again? Obama, again? Some combination of those 4? Is there any functional difference between them anyways? Or will we get 4 more years of Trump, again? <\/p>\n
Jesus fucking Christ, this shit is getting so God Damn TIRESOME<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The oligarchy needs to either leave, or change, or be pushed aside.<\/p>\n
There really is no other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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