The true contribution of Trump to our political system: He is ensuring, in his own bumbling way, the breakdown of partisan politics. No longer are Republicans overwhelmingly comfortable with toeing the party line.
Honestly, we also need someone like this as a Democrat President. Incompetence is the way to make people pay attention to issues instead of taking sides.
The only contribution he has done is block hillary to the white house. The result of which is a testiment as to how hated she is rather then any accomplishment of trump. On the contrary had trump stayed out of the primary and this would have been an easy win for the GOP, and not this razor thin victory he forced on the US.
The result of which is a testiment as to how hated she is rather then any accomplishment of trump.
Well, except that Hilary did win the popular vote:
"More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history.
The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final-count/index.html
By 3million voters which is right on the margin of error. We don't like trump I just admitted that but we absolutly hate hillary. A good deal of America didn't go to the polls because of our crapshoot election we got last year. They both sucked pretty hard.
share3 million is the margin of error? C'mon man!
shareThats like 1 percent of the US population.
shareBut there is NO margin of error on a counted and certified election result. You are thinking of polling,where a margin of error is necessary. Your analogy would be tantamount to adding the points of a point spread to the final score.
shareAlso...the entire population is a straw man argument. Out of roughly 300mil. Citizens,
Only 200mil are registered to vote. As you know from our other conversation...only half of those show up soooo....
You don't know what a straw man is do you?
shareAlso...the entire population is a straw man argument.
I get what you're going for in responding to his message, but saying it was 1% of the population was a statistic, not an argument, and it wasn't in relation to voter turnout.
To counter his point, I would say that 1% is not an insignificant number at all. 1 out of 100 people is significant, even at that tiny scale of 100 people. One person could easily lead 99 followers, and that would still be a fairly small number of followers to be called a "following."
Point is america lost the election before it was even finished. We had to choose between a Fat cry baby and basically the Devil to quote Bill Burr (or words to that effect). And 1% is a razar margin so stop acting like it was a landslide victory that was stolen by the electorial college's awkward methods. Every one knew the rules but but no one ever does anything about it.
shareI never said anything about landslide victories, only countering the notion that Hilary was hated even though she lost with more votes than any loser in history before her (which is mostly due to population growth).
I don't care for either candidate. Before the election, I actually thought it would be interesting to give Trump a chance because he could turn out to be a good President. Hell, it's still possible, if he could get over his ego and become a better leader then maybe people would be more willing to listen to any good ideas he may have.
But judging by his business history and overall personality, which I hadn't really paid attention to beforehand, I doubt he's the person for this job. We'll see.
"I don't care for either candidate. Before the election, I actually thought it would be interesting to give Trump a chance because he could turn out to be a good President. Hell, it's still possible, if he could get over his ego and become a better leader then maybe people would be more willing to listen to any good ideas he may have."
His ego was on full display during the primaries. This election I'm pretty sure people voted against the other candidate then their own. IE a lot of people voted for hillary cause they hated trump. They would have prefered a better candidate in their party. And people voted for trump cause they hated hillary. America lost the election during the primaries well before the general election. :/
"But judging by his business history and overall personality, which I hadn't really paid attention to beforehand, I doubt he's the person for this job. We'll see."
If only people could have realized that during the primay. They only saw "He has 9 billion dollars" No one seemed to pay attention to his many business failures and how he passed his debt to failing companies to protect his own asserts.
That would mean Trump actually got 3 million more votes than Hilldog.
sharewhat a stupid outlook.
shareI disagree, it's the partisan hacks that are taking up all of the media space on both sides. Antifa and Alt-Right drama queenery aside, the so-called moderates have been exposed as not being moderate but rather lackeys for their campaign donors. Even the Libertarians and the Socialist who NEVER win major elections were exposed for their ineffectiveness.
Until we see a RISE in a 3rd and 4th party that outright rejects the GOP and the Dems it will continue to be a "Left vs Right" freak sideshow that does nothing but help Network programmers and content providers.
And another thing. I'm noticing more and more Celebrities given more political credence than grass roots organizers and it could be argued that the grass roots (both Left and Right) are responsible for that happening.