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That's what Trump is pulling off & succeeding at. The Lindsey Graham phone number is a good example. How does one compete with that?
It kind of portrays negative campaigning at its worst.
Could this be the beginning of the end for negative ads or will somebody try to out negative Trump?
This is what money and celebrity does to our political system. We lose sight of the real issues and the real candidates.
The most popular or most famous rises to the top - not the best candidate for the job.
The straight shooters tend to be overshadowed.
We need to take the money out of politics.
We need to stick to the issues and their solutions. Not the gimmicks that are used to get people elected these days.
We need pure, sincere people that really want to change America for the better.
We don't need corporate hacks vying for our demise trying to outwar their opponents. Who's going to bomb Iran first when they get elected?
All those candidates benefit is the military industrial complex, the oil industry and the 1%.
Trump is the caricature for our current system of electing our so-called leaders. He is pointing out its worst features. In a way he is doing a good thing for us in pointing this out.
Maybe a good, sincere person will emerge from all of this and finally move America forward. One can only hope.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)no matter how many clowns we've had on the fringes in the past, Trump actually being considered as POTUS trivializes the office and our entire system.
global1
(25,294 posts)We need to get back to the basics. Maybe the American electorate will get the message and see how much we have been misled in this process.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)a large part of me is thinking that maybe we deserve that idiot in office.
The American public may have been mislead, but it hasn't been entirely unwillingly.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)God help the world!!!!!!
I am shocked that anyone would consider this nut but my son in law thinks trump can manage money
I pointed out to him trumps many bankruptcies and the fact he inherited the money.
That fact is of course is ignored!
My SIL is a great level headed person and for him to fall for trump scares the crap out of me.