tinyE: Trust me, there is a worse evil here. :P
I'll take a bullshitter over a fascist any day. :P
That sums it up about as well as you can in 2 short lines.
Breja: I know you'll probably hate me for it, but I think I'd rather see Trump win. And don't get me wrong- it has nothing to do with me "supporting" the wretched moron.....
I hear what you're saying and have thought something similar myself at times, especially just after Sanders lost out in the primary.
But yeah, its the "shit I gotta live here though" realization that makes me choose the short-term safe choice, hoping that a similar longer term disaster like the one you describe in your country doesn't come about as a result. And even more the "shit I gotta keep raising my kid here for the next 4 years" factor. Yeah given that I have no choice but to be all in for Hillary, since 3rd party candidates have no real chance under our system.
And of course it's hard to say how all this will play out - I'm sure you know there really isn't a parallel to this current situation in recent American history. Trump winning could well cause his brand of "ideology" (for lack of a better word, not sure what else to call that shit-heap of bluster and fear-mongering) to actually spread further here in the States. Of all the possible outcomes here that would certainly be the worst... whereas if/when he gets his ass handed to him in the general, well that will show at least some of his supporters that there is no realistic chance of someone like this winning, which may chip away at the numbers of that crowd. We really need this to be a comprehensive beat-down for it to have any positive effects like that, so thankfully that *is* how it's looking right now.
Certainly the impending landslide will cause the Republican party at least to come up with a better candidate for the next cycle, especially if they take hits across the board cuz of this. That would be a positive as well...
Bottom line is that we really fucked up in not nominating Bernie Sanders. We had a chance at putting in a real leader for once, somebody with vision, balls, and intelligence, who genuinely gives a fuck about the well-being of his countrymen. Tell ya, as a guy who's despised the politics of my country for the majority of my life, I got much more involved in it than I ever have before, trying to make that happen.
richlind33: Wow! Maybe there is a brain somewhere in that head of yours.
Too bad you still haven't given us any reason to say the same about you :P