Have you ever read the Lord of the Rings? This whole election kinda reminds me of the Scouring of the Shire, when the hobbits get back to the Shire only to discover that Sauraman has taken it over. The whole chapter is oddly relevant to the events of the last few months.

Best I can tell, he says a lot of words and says nothing in at least 99% of it

I saw something about Bernie getting an honorary position in the army or somewhere so he can be called Colonel Sanders and about 75% of trump supporters would vote for him
Imagine if that were happen

I am also literally afraid of what Trump would do if elected. As someone else pointed out, he can't do a lot of the things he wants to do without congress, but he could very well have their support if people don't vote out all of the republicans in office now.

It's terrifying.

Bleh
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It was suggested that he should, to get them to vote for him

I honestly thought Trump was a joke candidate! It's scary, and says nothing good for our country, that he's made it this far. I honestly don't like a single presidential candidate left in the race. Neither party offers any reasonable options. they are just cookie cutters from election to election with slight gimmicky changes. The rich jerk, the religious nut, the woman, the man of another ethnicity. They do it because they know people will fall for it instead of focusing on real issues.

wolfcat87 wrote:I honestly thought Trump was a joke candidate! It's scary, and says nothing good for our country, that he's made it this far. I honestly don't like a single presidential candidate left in the race. Neither party offers any reasonable options. they are just cookie cutters from election to election with slight gimmicky changes. The rich jerk, the religious nut, the woman, the man of another ethnicity. They do it because they know people will fall for it instead of focusing on real issues.

Most of the time I'd totally agree with you, but I feel like the sheer craziness of this election has put all other elections to shame. I mean, we've reached a point where the political class isn't even sure there will be a Republican Party after November--and while the rise of populism on the left has been far more discreet, odds are it's equally transformative.

First of all, I am not American, and I do not live in America either, so some of what I am going to say, may be irrelevant, so please don't get mad at me.

I cannot stand Trump for various reasons, but most of all because I cannot see him other than a man capable of nothing. They associate Trump with success in business, but 85% of his business ideas, or businesses in general have proved to be a fluke, so I cannot in the least consider him a capable businessman.

But, I can completely understand where the love for him is coming from.

1. A lot of native Americans think that anyone who has come to the US to steal their jobs should not be allowed. They are fed up with the crisis, and they associate this crisis with migrants. At the same time, they are also fed up of listening to politicians tell them that this is not the case, so having found someone who vents the anger at the same place as them, they find him as the person who will bring them justice and will help them get out of the crisis.

2. Generally speaking, people are not all well informed of what is happening or how things happen unless they have had things happen to them. Sometimes people also have their own ideas of how things happen or should happen, they have their own priorities, and as such they follow the flow that they think it's how things should happen. Like as an example, people don't know that they are the ones that pay money for building gigantic stadiums for their home teams through taxes and gather in crowds to protest if the major does not want to deepen the taxes. Even if they know, they choose to still burden themselves because they are fanatics who think that their team will bring them happiness. I guess you can say watching their team play is a way to get out of the reality of the bills they have to pay, or kids they have waiting at home.

3. Trump is not a politician, but he knows well about propaganda. His wife knows better than him. Remember that were people who would give their life for Hitler. Same principles apply here.

4. People are just fed up.

5. People want someone who did not get money through politics, because they are fed up of politicians, and all the bad things happening while nothing is being done for them.

There might be more reasons and examples, but those are the few that I manage to process at least.