Ron wouldn't be nearly as kind to Trump.

 

Freudian slip.:laugh:

I'm guessing that you agree with Mr. Kissinger on this matter?

 

Can't speak for anyone else. Mr. Kissinger has a bit more expertise in this matter than the great majority of us, I'm guessing.

This thinking has been around since cherry trees were chopped down by a cat with wooden teeth and funny hair.

 

Ill bet Noah heard that same thing...

Trump is carrying roughly 35-40% of Republicans which is probably somewhere around 20% of the voting population if I were to estimate.

 

What scares me is the question: is Trump isolated and just a caricature of this frustration held by a portion of the US, or is he the new normal? Will we have candidates blaming our issues on the weak instead of asking the strong to make us better? If this is the new status quo I see 2020 now: Trump vs. Kanye West.

 

The democratic candidate could be worse that Kanye West, could be Hillary or a socialist again....

Well, in all fairness, Obama and Hillary have brainwashed much of the Left, yourself included.

 

If Obama was saying the things the way Trump is saying things then he never would have won the nomination.

I'm aghast that there are so many people that are seriously considering that man. I mean he's been entertaining and all but his act is growing old and is getting disturbing. He is bringing out the worst in people. It's very disturbing. Don't like Hillary? I get it. Vote for one of the other candidates besides Trump or vote for a third party candidate. I don't agree with a lot of Bush's politics but he is a decent, sensible, capable man. Trump has all but castrated Jeb and effectively ended his campaign. What are people thinking? I know it's just a minority of people that say Trump is their guy but it's still disturbing that a man like that is able to sway that many people. I've often wondered how in the hell a man like Hitler was able to brainwash so many to think that hate was the way to make a country great(AGAIN). Scary...

 

Same here. It's weird to see someone beloved for hate speech in 2015.

Two comments:

 

1. When he first announced as a candidate, there is no way I thought Trump would be in the leading position that he enjoys now. Maybe like the classic underdog is an athletic contest, ".....the longer he hangs around..." Who knows?

 

2. I agree with Rockmom that the division the USA is feeling now is nothing like the Vietnam divide and the race riots of the late 60s. I think our country (and the world) is trying to learn how to handle and cope with the internet and social media, such as I am on right now, and the massive amount of information and viewpoints (bogus or valid) that are so readily available. Every Tom, Dick and Harriet (I included) can now give his or her view along with the more established pundits. I think this ability serves to create a divide that appears wider than it really is. Younger folks may not realize the vast culture-changing effects of the internet.

 

Excellent post. This makes too much sense.

If Obama was saying the things the way Trump is saying things then he never would have won the nomination.

 

Sure he would have. He made ridiculous statements and was elected. Remember him slamming Bush for the amount of debt he added? Then he proceeds to obliterate that spending by trillions.

 

How soon we forget.

Sure he would have. He made ridiculous statements and was elected. Remember him slamming Bush for the amount of debt he added? Then he proceeds to obliterate that spending by trillions.

 

How soon we forget.

 

So if he said we need to get all of the white people out of America so we can feel safe again he'd have still been elected? :lol2: I'm thinking he wouldn't have been.

So if he said we need to get all of the white people out of America so we can feel safe again he'd have still been elected? :lol2: I'm thinking he wouldn't have been.

 

He just may have been.

 

Many may have agreed with him. Lol

Two comments:

 

1. When he first announced as a candidate, there is no way I thought Trump would be in the leading position that he enjoys now. Maybe like the classic underdog is an athletic contest, ".....the longer he hangs around..." Who knows?

 

2. I agree with Rockmom that the division the USA is feeling now is nothing like the Vietnam divide and the race riots of the late 60s. I think our country (and the world) is trying to learn how to handle and cope with the internet and social media, such as I am on right now, and the massive amount of information and viewpoints (bogus or valid) that are so readily available. Every Tom, Dick and Harriet (I included) can now give his or her view along with the more established pundits. I think this ability serves to create a divide that appears wider than it really is. Younger folks may not realize the vast culture-changing effects of the internet.

 

Don't worry. Candidate Trump is doing his best to get us back there.

Two comments:

 

1. When he first announced as a candidate, there is no way I thought Trump would be in the leading position that he enjoys now. Maybe like the classic underdog is an athletic contest, ".....the longer he hangs around..." Who knows?

 

2. I agree with Rockmom that the division the USA is feeling now is nothing like the Vietnam divide and the race riots of the late 60s. I think our country (and the world) is trying to learn how to handle and cope with the internet and social media, such as I am on right now, and the massive amount of information and viewpoints (bogus or valid) that are so readily available. Every Tom, Dick and Harriet (I included) can now give his or her view along with the more established pundits. I think this ability serves to create a divide that appears wider than it really is. Younger folks may not realize the vast culture-changing effects of the internet.

 

I'm wondering if it is fair to say that the Internet is to today what television was to my formative years.

He just may have been.

 

Many may have agreed with him. Lol

 

:lol2: :lol2:

 

You know better.

I'm wondering if it is fair to say that the Internet is to today what television was to my formative years.

I think it is stronger. It's is certainly more pervasive, intrusive and interactional.

Don't worry. Candidate Trump is doing his best to get us back there.

 

I think you need to step back and look at the current President. And I am serious King of the one liners.