"We'd rather destroy our own party for generations than let someone who will change things come into office."
Just goes to show how little choice we the people actually have.
But hey, least Sanders is basically history by now.
Don't count Sanders out yet. He's already stated that he's not out until the convention, and there's plenty of time for minds to change. Add in the fact that not all delegates have been chosen yet, and some won't be chosen until the convention for the states that don't have primaries.
The Republican party knows that a Trump nomination is most likely going to be a democratic vote in, at least that's what a lot of people are predicting. Yes, there are a large number of people voting for Trump, but there are people who are changing their minds every day the more they hear from the guy. Add to the fact that there's going to be a huge shift in possible minority votes, the Republicans are going to want a candidate that's going to appeal to those voters, and Trump is not it. 4.5 million people might not seem like a lot, but depending on exactly what state they reside it, it can make a huge difference.
Not every state holds a primary, and even in those that do, not everyone who votes is casting it. That means you don't really know how a state's popular vote is going to go until it actually comes time to election day. That's still a lot of time for people to change their minds, and quite frankly, if Trump continues with his threats and constant hate spreading messages that everyone deems political incorrectness, he is eventually going to lose supporters. Hate and anger are not emotions that people truly want to hold onto. They're exhausting. Sooner or later, and I'm hoping it's sooner in this case, they're going to see that the message Trump is spreading isn't how the country should be, and most of his ideas are implausible.
Take that wall he's planning on building. Do you really think people won't devise a way to get around it? And exactly how is it that he's going to get Mexico to pay for that wall? Sanctions that will hurt the U.S economy? Threats of war that no one in congress will support? The only way I can think of that Mexico would willing pay for it is if Trump told him it will keep him out of their country.
And how about tracking Muslim Americans? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was done during WW2 with Japanese Americans, or at least something along the same lines. Forget that it's a huge violation to their civil rights, in this day and age it's not going to solve the problem of terrorists, if anything it would create more and make the U.S an even bigger target. I mean, seriously? Can no one see the common sense in that?
The sad truth is, the majority of the people who are supporting Trump now are not educating themselves. They're taking everything he says as absolute, without investigating. Do I think that we need to secure our borders to Mexico? Yes, but I think that there is a better way to do it that would not only create jobs, but it would also help those who are actually trying to come here to do something positive. No one wants that though, because people like Trump are feeding into the idiotic mindset that the Mexicans coming over here are stealing jobs away from Americans. I've got news; the jobs they take are the jobs most American's don't want to do, and the only real people taking American's jobs away are the big corporations that are sending them over to India.
Trump is an eye opener for the Republican party, that's his only real purpose in this election. The party isn't going to just give him a nomination with a hand shake, not when there are people inside their own party that's distancing themselves from him. I mean, how is that going to work exactly with a president in office that half of Congress won't support? He'd be fighting against not only the democrats, but his own damn party. I can see him getting a whole lot done when there's only a few hands raised to support anything that he wants to do, and the majority are giving him a big old 'fuck you'.
This entire election is nothing more than choosing the lesser of two evils. I'm not a Hillary supporter in any way, and quite frankly I'll be pissed if she's the one I have to vote for just to keep Trump out of office. I'm not the only one who's feeling this way either. Maybe if the Republicans hadn't spent the past four years trying to make Obama look bad by blocking him in everything, they wouldn't be in the position they're in now. Everyone wants to blame Obama for everything, but he's not the one with the power. He can't make laws, that's Congress' job. If people want a change they need to vote the next time a representative or senator is up for election. They need to pay closer attention to what their state Congress men and women are doing and how they are voting instead of worrying about the guy who's pretty much sitting pretty in the White House for everyone to shit all over. That's where the change comes, and it's been said for years. You want a better politician, than you need to get rid of the ones that you have now, starting from the ground up. Remember, Congress doesn't have a limited number of terms, the presidency does.
