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by croon 3742 days ago
I've mostly just refrained from discussing politics since I was involved with it more as a youth, as I've just come to realize the pointlessness of it. Either you are both sane parties and conclude that you land slightly differently on values which lead you to different opinions/candidates, or one party is just too ignorant to provide for a reasonable discussion to begin with. This is what Trump and his followers are. I can't fathom why this is even remotely necessary to debate. It's not even hyperbole. Sure he exploits the misguided frustration of a certain size of populace, but that he's ACTUALLY the frontrunner for a basically two-party country of 300M people honestly disgusts me.

If you want to discuss Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz or any other politician I simply disagree with I guess I'd be up for that, but Trump has no policies or ideas or plans. He just says random shit that idiots want to hear, and when he goes too far he backs on it and says "he's researched the subject and changed his mind", and some poor monkey wrangler has to carefully word his positions on the latest crazy he's withdrawn from.

I know there is nothing tangible here, but that's because you can't argue with crazy. He has no positions.

End of rant.