Bernie Sanders is objectively the best candidate whereas Donald Trump is a question mark. He flip-flops every second to see what sticks on the wall. I have not watched all of the Republican debates but a personally memorable example of this is revealed in Trump's approach to foreign policy in the Middle East, which have been laid out over the course of said debates.
One moment he says that he would establish non-interventionist policies to avoid involvements in quagmires, a lesson we should have learned from Iraq just a decade ago, and to cut our grossly overexpensive military spending to instead fund areas like social welfare, education, and the rebuilding of our infrastructure back at home. This is a position I agree with Trump on.
Yet, the next moment, he would say that, not only should we fight a "politically incorrect" war with ISIS, we should in fact be targetting their families, too; that casualties of innocent civilians should be overlooked, and that we should continue to torture even if it has been proven to be ineffective. I, for one, happen to disagree with this perspective.
The way I view it, though, I perceive all of his flowery rhetoric to be nothing more than a façade; an appeal to the people of our country in a way that would secure him the presidency. This is the same with Hillary Clinton (whom rarely discusses actual substantive policy positions), but the sole fact that Trump is able to speak the truth a portion of the time lends me enough confidence to entrust him in the White House, at least over Clinton, and indeed, poll after poll suggest strongly that such sentiment is popular to an extent where Trump would easily win against Clinton in a general election. This is compounded by negative connotations associated with Clinton, such as with her ties to Wall Street and pathetic approach in regulating the very behavior that landed us in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis (Dodd Frank? Seriously? And she doesn't even have the competence to tell us she'd reinstate Glass-Steagall, haha), as well as general dishonesty...not only the email scandal, which will prove increasingly troublesome in the coming months, but she has been exposed as a try-hard politician comfortable with lying to any group of people to gain votes to a point where no one believes a word that comes out of her mouth anymore.
I would rather elect a broken clock that is correct twice a day than a corporate shill of a clock that would unquestionably refuse to make any progress to help the average American over her campaign contributers and bring us closer to WWIII.
In my opinion.
Edit: also, JES hit the nail on its head; pulling money out of politics would greatly benefit the representation of the average American in our nation, the inequality has advanced to a point where I no longer consider the United States to be a democracy, but an oligarchy.
One moment he says that he would establish non-interventionist policies to avoid involvements in quagmires, a lesson we should have learned from Iraq just a decade ago, and to cut our grossly overexpensive military spending to instead fund areas like social welfare, education, and the rebuilding of our infrastructure back at home. This is a position I agree with Trump on.
Yet, the next moment, he would say that, not only should we fight a "politically incorrect" war with ISIS, we should in fact be targetting their families, too; that casualties of innocent civilians should be overlooked, and that we should continue to torture even if it has been proven to be ineffective. I, for one, happen to disagree with this perspective.
The way I view it, though, I perceive all of his flowery rhetoric to be nothing more than a façade; an appeal to the people of our country in a way that would secure him the presidency. This is the same with Hillary Clinton (whom rarely discusses actual substantive policy positions), but the sole fact that Trump is able to speak the truth a portion of the time lends me enough confidence to entrust him in the White House, at least over Clinton, and indeed, poll after poll suggest strongly that such sentiment is popular to an extent where Trump would easily win against Clinton in a general election. This is compounded by negative connotations associated with Clinton, such as with her ties to Wall Street and pathetic approach in regulating the very behavior that landed us in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis (Dodd Frank? Seriously? And she doesn't even have the competence to tell us she'd reinstate Glass-Steagall, haha), as well as general dishonesty...not only the email scandal, which will prove increasingly troublesome in the coming months, but she has been exposed as a try-hard politician comfortable with lying to any group of people to gain votes to a point where no one believes a word that comes out of her mouth anymore.
I would rather elect a broken clock that is correct twice a day than a corporate shill of a clock that would unquestionably refuse to make any progress to help the average American over her campaign contributers and bring us closer to WWIII.
In my opinion.
Edit: also, JES hit the nail on its head; pulling money out of politics would greatly benefit the representation of the average American in our nation, the inequality has advanced to a point where I no longer consider the United States to be a democracy, but an oligarchy.
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