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Poll- Do you care about Trump's taxes?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭SeamusFX


    Permabear wrote: »
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    That's the problem, people went with Johnson even though they knew he couldn't win and this helped the cancer get elected and even if the Libertarians got the 5% and received funding, it would still be years, if ever, before they have a real chance of competing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    In that instance I don't think the problem are people like Permabear at all, the problem are the 50+ percent of voters who will vote for the letter D or R. Not the policies or candidate, just the letter which on many cases means more to them than their country. Let's say Trump turns the US into a third world country within a year, complete hypothetical of course but let's say he somehow manages it, there are people in the US, lots of them (and at least one in this thread) who if given teh chance to go back and change their vote would still not, because the letter D or R means more to them than their own country or even their own individual wellbeing. Personally I think Republicans are worse for this due to the religious tie in, often of a fundamentalist nature, but it doesn't mean the democrat voter base is squeaky clean in it either.

    If people had been more honest to themselves and also not sat at home because they didn't like either of the two frontrunners, you'd have seen significantly higher turnout and probably over 40% of the outing go to Johnson, Stein, McMullan and others. If people had any copies on they'd be doing that already, and the internet has the potential to do huge, huge damage to the two party platform if candidates can strike the right chord, especially as the baby boomers doe out.

    But then again, as we've all seen on this forum, a shocking number of people would happily ride on the back of a nuke aimed right at their own country so long as the letter D or R was painted on the side of it.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Well, the way things are going, years is still sooner than never having a choice other than the two disasters which are the D and R parties. I'm willing to play the long game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,952 ✭✭✭CMOTDibbler


    Well, the way things are going, years is still sooner than never having a choice other than the two disasters which are the D and R parties. I'm willing to play the long game.
    It would take some upheaval in the system to acheive that. Not sure how you'd even go about getting something like that started.


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