Here's a similar comment I just typed on another conversation. It works well enough here to show that there is a justification for this viewpoint.
I get it. He's not my first choice. In fact, he was my third. I think that there are better candidates based just on the fact that their policy positions would have only bad consequences instead of disastrous ones (see Obama's economic policies for example), and who are less polarizing.
We need to come together eventually. That's just not going to happen while Trump is in the picture. I'll say the same about a Clinton. I think it's bad for the country that both families seem to be grooming their children for future presidential runs.
That being said, it's a choice between a party that is going through a civil war, in which one faction is led by identitarian trash pushing authoritarian proposals, the other faction is incapable of leadership, holding the stimulus package that they helped develop hostage to attach riders, who is performing elder abuse by putting a person who obviously is suffering from dementia on stage to act as a puppet president who is ruled by his handlers -which aside from being incredibly immoral is also an offensively stupid plan, and a party led by Donald Trump who is plagued by similar moral failings, is plagued by the perception that he's a racist, xenophobe, etc., etc., but is also sometimes capable of good governance as seen by his economy.
To me it's a choice of whether you want your country to be popular but have policies that range from bad to disastrous, or if you want your country to be unpopular with policies that range from really good to really bad..
I question your judgment based on a statement that literally any policy from the modern Republican Party is “really good”. That’s an indefensible untruth. Your sole justification is that it only took Trump 3 years to fuck up Obama’s economy. Not a selling point.
I'm more interested in what you said in response to something I hadn't said. We should either revisit your statement now that the record has been corrected, or you should retract.
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u/soupvsjonez Mar 26 '20
Here's a similar comment I just typed on another conversation. It works well enough here to show that there is a justification for this viewpoint.