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Originally Posted by Ammi
…with respect I think that we in the UK do have an understanding of a frustrated world atm..(which obviously includes the USA…)…because they’re world frustrations that are being felt and we also all too well understand with those frustrations, a dislike of government/parliament establishment in general, regardless of personal political leanings… but what you say, the way you say it…that anything ‘anti’ no matter what that ‘anti’, doesn’t make sense..it would just seem dumb to vote for anti because that’s all it was and I don’t believe that the people of the USA are dumb at all…the USA wasn’t built on dumb, it hasn’t become the nation it is through dumb….that’s like saying I hate dentists so I’ll have my hairdresser to do my teeth work because she’s not a dentist…/I hate the police force and someone is threatening someone so I’ll go get a waitress or something…however, if an alternative option was someone like a member of the armed forces/someone appropriate to a situation..?...then that’s an alternative consideration/I like the army forces, I’ll ask if this chap here can help because I hate police officers and he has experience…it’s not like voting to get Rage against the Machine to #1 over Simon Cowell because manufactured music is hated and Rage Against the Machine is anti so they’ll do../we’ll buy them on itunes instead….we wouldn’t even think in the UK of shall we have Ant or Dec to run against any of our ‘establishments’ unless either were someone who we felt were able and capable and had good, sound policies and qualities to admire and also had confidence in them being able to implement their changes….’anti’ is just such a dumb thing unless the anti itself is something to vote for and something of great meaning in it’s own right …not just any old unsavoury character with prejudices and who instils no confidence in any ability of being able to do a job or even understand a job of politics….
..Hilary might represent some of what is the worst in establishment, I get that…but her establishment is also what makes her the better qualified person to become President, she knows politics, she understands politics, she has lived much of her life in politics in some capacity…voting for Hilary mainly because she isn’t Trump might be far from the ideal in candidates but it does at least have some sense about it because of her political knowledge/a job requirement I would think…but voting for Trump because he’s not Hilary and because he’s not ‘establishment’ makes no sense at all because he has nothing else there on offer…. nothing, zilch, zero…I think (I hope..)…the great American people are smarter than that…otherwise the bigger shock might be for them…/be careful what they wish for…
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You are applying logic to the voting decision though Ammi, and rule 1 of democracy is that you can vote for whatever your choice without need to justify it. That's how complete idiots get elected.
If we look back at the brexit vote, in the run up, one of the reasons people gave for voting brexit was to get rid of David Cameron. That was laughed at, at the time .... don't be stupid ... it wont affect him. As of today, he is no longer even an MP
I'm a great believer that if something is meant to happen, it will, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.