My prediction for the election and what comes after. . . . . . .

[Ninurta]

I’ve contended all along that I’m not politically very smart but isn’t sticking to the ideas set forth in the constitution as a Constitutional Republic and not as a straight democracy meant to avoid mob rule and are you saying we should do something other than follow the constitution?

No ma'am. I'm saying that we should follow the Constitution, rather than the "ideas" set forth in in the Constitution. I mean the actual Constitution, what is written in it. See, the problem is that "ideas" are subject to "interpretation" and change without following the Amendment process, also listed in it. It says what it says, in plain words, until it is changed legally and no longer says what it did say before.

Go easy on me. I’m not that bright or educated which you would think would put me in the tRUMP camp but doesn’t.

I'm not overly bright either, but I AM fairly highly educated - in the hard sciences, physics specifically - and yet I am still in the Trump camp. Go figure. I put it down to the fact that it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know whether one wants to be free or not.

Maybe you misinterpreted? “Don the Con” was meant as total disrespect for a pompous, misogynistic, disgusting, unqualified and undignified pussy grabbing narcissistic egomaniacal reality TV playing blowhard. I wasn’t arguing anything – I was expressing an opinion.

S'ok. Trump does exactly the same sort of name-calling thing, so you're in good company I guess. remember his "Pocahontas" gaffe when it was supposed to be "Faux-cahontas"?

Being cognizant of invoking Godwin’s Law, this surge of flag waving populism or nationalism or whatever you call it and the cult like following of the man as if he were the second coming scares the living daylights out of me and is dangerously reminiscent of what ended Wiemar Republic by a certain cropped mustache individual that can go without further mention. As member of an unpopular minority, perhaps you can imagine my concerns?

You don't like Populism? What is it about folks having a say in their own destiny - which is what Populism is ("of the people") - that you find objectionable? I can understand your concerns, I just happen to disagree with them for a variety of reasons. One is that I do not detect the correlations you seem to. I'm no fan of Trump, nor do I hang on his every word - that would be silly. The hand-grips there are too slippery. I do, however, recognize when someone else is hard after freedom and against the cage that is Socialism... and conversely, I know when someone is trying to shove Socialism down my throat. That is why I could not vote for Biden. I actually listened to his speeches, and was utterly horrified at what he has planned for us - and what his cronies have planned for us under his (actually Kamala's) administration is even worse.

I get it. People were tired of politics as usual and wanted to shake things up and try something different but electing what amounts to a WWE wrestling star with a big mouth, a bad comb over and a Twitter account was an experiment that has run its course and I fear another four years of this low brow clown show will be the end of this country as I’ve known it during my nearly sixty-six trips around the sun.

Is there anything specific and objective you can point to that makes you feel that way, or is it all just subjective, a "bad feeling"?

We are of a close age, and I seem to recall a vastly different country than you do. Trump's plans would lead us back to the country I recall, whereas Biden's plans would lead us to be a cognate of the old Soviet Union that you may recall as the Boogey Man from those long ago days. We've actually been moving in that direction for some time now, since the Soviet Union collapsed and King George Bush I (HW, before W, who continued the march) was in office, but as time goes on, the march to Soviet status seemed to be accelerating until Trump's Gong Show took the wheel, when it came to a grinding halt.

For the past 4 years, the Democrats were hard after trying to scare us with a dead empire ("The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!") when in fact a careful observer would note that it is they, not Trump, who were actually marching us in that Soviet direction. BUT - at least that occupied enough of their time that they couldn't do any further damage in their free time, since they didn't have any. The mind boggles. It's as if the US has been steadily moving in to fill the vacuum that the Soviets left when their way of life collapsed under it's own weight - WHY would we want that?

I am not the raging radical left or a libtard as anyone not aboard the trump train would like to believe but the country has gone backwards and our international reputation sullied under the reign of the Orange Emperor Palpatine and even if Sleepy Joe is not my ideal candidate, he got my vote anyway. #nevertrumpersrule

I never called you a "libtard". I've never called anyone a "libtard".  I've found name calling a distasteful thing ever since I grew beyond the schoolyard. Where is our international reputation sullied? In which countries? that's a serious question, not rhetorical. You may be able to educate me in something I am unaware of here. In China, probably. In North Korea and Iran, almost definitely. Probably Venezuela, too, among the leadership of those countries - but those folks are not the sort I strive to gain the respect of, anyhow. Is there someone else? Some other countries I am unaware of?

Your vote will do "Sleepy Joe" no good. He will not last as long as lightning on a limb before Harris, Pelosi, and The Squad move to have him evicted from the White House so they can install Harris in her new digs. Do you really think all that discussion in the House about the 25th Amendment was about Trump? Pelosi herself said openly that it was not, it was for "a future president" - she just didn't mention how close that future will be. Your vote for Biden is not doing him a favor, by any means. Should he win, it will actually accelerate his decline.

In all honesty, I am a simple person that has always been more of a single issue voter. I know very little about economics or foreign policy (other than stop fighting wars and being dickheads) and could even be a Republican were it not for the evangelical influence in their conservative policies.

I'm a simple person too, and a single issue voter. Nationally, that issue is "fight Marxism". Locally, the issue shifts to "leave my Second Amendment alone, in case I have to get serious about fighting Marxism".

Speaking of stopping fighting wars... no, I can't. I just can't. that one is too easy. I just had the same discussion a few days ago with a veteran friend of mine who thinks the sun rises in Biden's head and sets in Biden's ass. It rocked his worldview considerably. He had no answers to my statements, and it ended the conversation. I'm not after a conversation stopper here.

I was raised a Republican, and was a Republican for a number of years into adulthood, until the Neocons did their hostile takeover of the Republican party and swung it hard to the Left. That gave us things like the Bush Dynasty, and I was not on board with a Conservative march towards Marxism, nor did I want to be part of a "leftist Lite" party, so I left the Republicans. Or they left me. It was one or the other, but we went our separate ways. I may return to it some day, if I live long enough to see the Leftist Neocons entirely purged from it, but for now I am a man without a party.

Terrible place to be.

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