ShootDontTalk wrote:You may be right, but I think the stakes are infinitely higher this time. If we don't turn the Democrat/liberal/progressive/socialist tide back this time, I really have the terrible feeling that the country will tear itself apart.Blindref757 wrote:If the republicans don't put up a true conservative, we are all wasting our time. When they try to get these moderate candidates like Jeb Bush so that a few Ohio democrats will elect them, we are only voting for Socialist or Socialist Lite.
I would rather have a somewhat less ideal fix than a continuation of the disastrous course we're on right now. Surely I'm not the only one who sees the terrible acceleration of the right is wrong, wrong is right, good is bad, bad is good train wreck we're riding?

I think that a lot of America is sick of the train wreck. We're all aware that Trump will never get a nomination, but look at his numbers. People are so starved for a change that they're turning to the furthest thing they can find from the "norm."