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Trump would not 'get out of the way'. He's antsy to impose government 'deals' in droves. Decide how to vote, or if it is still worth voting at all, when you know who the candidates are. The frightening Trump with his anti-private property rights, overt contempt for innocent people in his way, and loose canon unprincipled "deals" should not be supported if you don't have to.
Rand Paul has had his moments of religious zealotry, too, like sponsoring legislation overthrowing Roe v Wade through the ear-wilting of device of legally defining a fetus to be a person. Bizarre moves like that undermine the good in him.
Armchair "libertarians" inept at making a difference and who stand on the sidelines doing nothing have no business smearing those who are doing the work for leading to "dictatorship".
I can just hear you advising the founders.
"Poor King George. He's so misunderstood. I don't mind quartering a few soldiers in my house, why do you? Gosh, you think that's bad? Things will only be worse when we lose a war to them. I am afraid of what he would heap on us if we resist."
Don't worry. They will never come for you.
They have lots of domestic terrorists (aka people with assault weapons) to put in concentration camps first.
Not voting or voting for a hopeless candidate "sends a message", but not one that makes any difference. The politicians don't care, they only want the power that comes from the election, and the 'message' is useless. At best it says "frustration, not the first two", which can mean any of a large number of motives encompassing anarchy, anti-foreign policy and all kinds of 'rightist' and 'leftist' positions. If you want to send a message then send a message and say what it is. It isn't what votes in this mess are for.
I just know if Hillary gets in, she will doom my small business with her minimum wage hikes and higher taxes. Its not that I WANT Trump as a principled leader, but I dont WANT Hillary. Plus the fact Trump will be a better administrator and foreign affairs negotiator.
As to Putin, I agree with what you say about him. BUT, he IS the leader of the largest country on earth, and the USA does have to deal with him. Better to have someone on our side who sticks up for us, rather than muslim foreigners like we have now.
Americans make America great. But our government can and does make that difficult and sometimes impossible. Best thing our government could do to 'make america great' is get out of the way.
So, if the election were to be held today with the candidates we have today, and given the majority takes all mentality, I would vote for Trump as I think no one else currently running could beat Hillary. Call me collectivist or fascist or whatever, but I dont want Hillary to win.
Putin is a conniving, fascist, murderer from the KGB, a glorified thug. What Putin thinks or says is not grounds for supporting anyone, let alone Trump and his unprincipled, anti property rights "deals".
Conservatives rushing to nationalistic "make America great again" as the supposed alternative to socialism is a replay of pre-Hitler Germany in which Hitler and the National Socialists arose as the compromise between traditional German conservatism based on religion and nationalism versus the communists based on the same altruist-collectivist premises. See Leonard Peikoff's Ominous Parallels.
America did not become great from a strong arm government wheeling and dealing anything and everything. That is the Pragmatism that wrecked the country. Get rid of the statism and ordinary Americans in their freedom will "make the country great again", like they did the first time.
Are you ready for Hillary as president in 2016? We already know a lot of the dumb things she will try to do. God knows what else she will promise to people.
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