I only registered as Democrat out of necessity to vote in the primaries. I never liked the idea of a businessman running America, but our choice in the last election basically ended up being “do I vote for ‘in bed with Wall Street’ or ‘Wall Street itself’?”
I look at the things the Democrat party is proposing, the things higher ups are saying and am frustrated that they haven’t learned a damn thing. They continue to stupidly throw vinegar at the flies and wonder why the flies aren’t coming to them.
Trump’s policies I feel are mostly pie-in-the-sky. His tax plan sounded too good to be true, and what did people think was going to happen giving corporations another break? I just looked at it and saw it as state-sanctioned Ponzi-scheming. The way it conveniently ends just after Trump leaves office (assuming he’s re-elected) and even if he isn’t, is a win for him. If things go bad and he’s not in the White House, whoever takes his place will probably get blamed, we get a lame duck administration that fails to accomplish anything to solve these problems in any meaningful way, then we just vote in someone who screws us over even worse and we’re back to square one.
I live not to far away from the GM plant in Lordstown and have friends who worked there. This tax plan was apparently supposed to incentivize the factory staying in America? Fat lot of good that did because they’re shutting down the plant.
The border wall doesn’t really come off as a good solution to me either, nor the steps Trump is taking to get it built. It just strikes me as a “We should take Bikini Bottom, and Push It Somewhere Else” type deal. And sure, even if he can declare a national emergency to get it built, it’s going to bite America on the ass as so many have said before. Giving that much power to anyone has trouble written all over it. Sure, today this tactic will work in your favor, but you can’t guarantee that someone won’t use it against you later on.
I volunteer at a soup kitchen, and one of the volunteers was talking with the Sister hoping to bring some Muslim refugees, for she was Muslim herself and her husband ran a mosque. I sat down with the Sister and she told me about how they were a couple families; mothers with children who had no fathers, and my heart ached for them. I was sincerely looking forward to trying to help them, especially the children. On the way home I hear on the radio about Trump’s Muslim ban, and I was livid to say the least. I don’t think a blanket ban on a whole group is the way to go. I’ve been reluctant to talk about these things because I just expect to be labeled an Islamophilic cuck.
For a time, I felt like I couldn’t escape the TDS both before and after the election. I enjoyed doing college and community theatre, but it seemed like the focus was shifting less towards telling stories, and more towards pointless evangelizing. If the Hamilton debacle with Pence was anything to go off of, most Trump folks wouldn’t set foot in a production of a musical, much less a college production to hear about the “evils of Trumpism”. Most people who were going there were already of the mind that Trump was bad. I stopped performing in theatre productions for a time because I wanted to perform, not be someone else’s mouthpiece!
As far as the Russia stuff goes, I’m sick and tired of it. We haven’t found a smoking gun, though we have found evidence of several crimes that aren’t directly related, and I think on one hand In glad to see shady people get caught. On the other hand, I’m hoping Trump just finishes his term like Clinton and he doesn’t get impeached.
Trump is a blowhard, and you can always count on him to act like one. Pence is honest, or at least as honest as a weasel like him can be. I’m not entirely unconvinced that Pence wasn’t pro-conversion therapy, the official statements reeked of PR-speak. Pence is a lawyer as well as a politician. He may not be able to create death camps for gays, but I’m sure he could find other ways to propose some truly awful policies, likely hidden behind a string of loopholes and opaque legalese. He wears his intentions on his sleeve and hides them behind a folksy demeanor.
So I don’t like Trump, but I don’t think impeaching him is going to do us any good. I’d much rather let things take their course.
I don’t know if I’m left or right, I think I’m just tired.
