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Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)
Wed May 25, 2016, 12:46 PM May 2016

I don't know why.. but I am just at peace..

I know there is a lot of movement in the Democratic Party... that I am such a proud life long member of.. but all the stuff getting tossed around.. for some reason.. I am just at peace that what ever happens will be okay.. can't give you a reason for it.. maybe having E. Warren out and smacking down Trump.. just gives me the positive feeling that the Democrats are going to be okay.. If its Hillary or Bernie, we are going to be okay.. I have been like this for maybe three weeks..


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Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
1. I'm kind of at ease myself. Trump is not presidential material at all. If this country's standards
Wed May 25, 2016, 12:54 PM
May 2016

have devolved to such a level that they would consider electing a Fascist like Trump, then I'd just drop out and watch the country fall.

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
6. I agree, but the fact that the guy has gotten this far suggests that the country has become
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:09 PM
May 2016

unmoored to a certain degree. A decade ago, he would have been laughed off stage.

Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)
8. I cannot for the life of me understand what the other side
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:10 PM
May 2016

sees in Trump.. he literally whizzes on everything they stand for.. so what are they seeing in him.. its mindboggling..

 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
9. That's what troubles me. Facts don't seem to matter to an increasing number of Americans.
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:21 PM
May 2016

How can they think that a billionaire, who has stiffed his creditors four times, who employees unskilled visa workers at his Mar a Lago resort, who employed illegal immigrants on his construction sites and who has his clothing line manufactured in China and Mexico is the guy that's going to solve their economic woes ?

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
2. Once the primary is over I won't have any emotional investment in the Presidential election
Wed May 25, 2016, 12:55 PM
May 2016

I certainly don't want Trump anywhere near Washington, and will vote for Clinton in November if she's the nominee.

But otherwise.....Meh. Don't like either of them, for different reasons. And the campaign will be totally inane and soul depleting.

The new e-mail report just cemented that. She is not the person who should be our nominee -- even if it can't be Bernie, she should not be the nominee. But since the lemminglike march to the sea seems to be unstoppable, why bother caring?

So I'll detach from it. If I get in the mood to watch Reality TV I'll watch Survivor or something.

Hopefully the long run will work out better. But not feeling very hopeful right now.

Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)
5. I guess maybe I am at the place
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:07 PM
May 2016

that some things have long been out of my hands..

When O'Malley dropped out.. (he was my guy) I was so discombobulated.. that for a while I thought.. meh.. I will just be a down ballot Democrat.. and put all my energy there..but that started to pass.. then I was not going to participate in GDP.. but that passed too.. and then the negative posts stopped making me feel anything.. I do not know if that makes sense..but what is .. is.. and I am peaceful with that..

 

realmirage

(2,117 posts)
4. Those who wouldn't vote Hillary would be putting the most vulnerable people at risk
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:06 PM
May 2016

The people with good jobs will be fine through a Trump presidency. The wealthy will be fine. It's the vulnerable who will be pulverized.

For this reason I am very pumped to vote for Hillary.

Peacetrain

(22,875 posts)
7. And I am more in the Hillary camp now
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:09 PM
May 2016

but to be honest with you.. if Bernie (which is not going to happen because of the numbers) had been able to swing those numbers.. I would have been okay with him.. it is what it is..

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
12. Say what? Are you seriously suggesting that people who didn't vote
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:42 PM
May 2016

for Gore in states like Vermont or California or Massachusetts, are responsible in anyway for what happened in 2000m

Not only is that silly, it's wildly uninformed.

 

realmirage

(2,117 posts)
14. The message spills over into the battleground states
Wed May 25, 2016, 01:44 PM
May 2016

You can't contain it to just the non-purple states.

People said in 2000 there was no difference between Gore and Bush. Won't get fooled again.

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