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Well this has all escalated rather quickly and nicely.
I had one on FB call Trump supporters racist.The people that keep labelling Trump as a racist, sexist Nazi would probably have no answer if you asked them which of his policies they don't particularly like. Most of them struggle to even source what it is that makes him one of those labels...
Well that's actually the easy part for them.The people that keep labelling Trump as a racist, sexist Nazi would probably have no answer if you asked them which of his policies they don't particularly like. Most of them struggle to even source what it is that makes him one of those labels...
If you go back far enough the whole rhetoric (and that of the entire regressive left) stems from that fountain of knowledge Buzzfeed.
Because that's not what it is to polarise the citizenship. As eran stated, all that is is a shifting of popular opinion.there's obviously no convincing you that going from the most approved of president, to the least approved president is polarizing.
Polarisation, in this sense, describes a situation where different groups simultaneously occupy opposing but very popular viewpoints.
I've been reading an argument where you may have missed one of the points in that sense.
If Trump is so polarising, how come 44.7% of people expressed absolutely no preference either way?
Because no one watches cnn and fox?
He was a polarising figure in the private sector but now he is in a much more important arena and judgement is reserved until action is seen.
The butchering he's received from the left and mainstream media before even entering office would suggest that is not the case...
Because that's not what it is to polarise the citizenship. As eran stated, all that is is a shifting of popular opinion.
Polarisation, in this sense, describes a situation where different groups simultaneously occupy opposing but very popular viewpoints.
I've been reading an argument where you may have missed one of the points in that sense.
The neutral polling center being people that didn't vote...
If Trump is so polarising, how come 44.7% of people expressed absolutely no preference either way?
The neutral polling center being people that didn't vote...
Is that the number you have of people who didn't vote or didn't vote for Hillary?If Trump is so polarising, how come 44.7% of people expressed absolutely no preference either way?
I'm still not seeing it, but there's obviously no convincing you that going from the most approved of president, to the least approved president is polarizing.
If you watched the debates then you must also agree that Hillary also had no idea what the hell she was on about and was more less just doing what Trump was doing.
Neither candidate was worth anything and going into the election it was pretty clear the only thing they were preaching for votes was that they "weren't the other guy".
Populism and anti-establishment thinking have nothing to do with proposing simple fixes. Populism is telling people what they want to hear (or at least think what they want to hear) and anti-establishment thinking is showing how much you're unlike the norm.
Obama did both, one of his main messages during his campaign was that he was going to end the war in Iraq because frankly most of America was tired of the cost, both financially and with human life, of the war. He also showed that he was going to go against the grain and attempt to be more like Europe with universal healthcare coverage. He failed on both and were just empty promises.
Trump is a liar, full of himself, thinks he's right, puts his cronies in power with him, and hates all the last guy's policies. I see no difference with Trump then I did with Obama, he's just saying a bunch of meaningless things to get some of the country on his side and will never actually go through with any of it. The likelihood of there ever being a wall is super low, planned parenthood will no be dissolved, Muslims won't be banned from entering the US, and so on. Just like Obama never managed to take our guns like he said.
If you think Trump is somehow special or different, then you really don't know anything about US politics.
We have given you examples of another president, you just choose to ignore it.
Why should Trump respect other political opponents when they don't respect him?
And really why should any Trump supporters have any respect for Trump's political opponents when they often brand Trump's supporters are inbreed rednecks who love God, cheap beer, NASCAR, guns, being racist, and good old fashioned 'Murican Freedom? I didn't vote for Trump, but I get lumped in with Trump supporters because I thought Hillary Clinton was one of the worst candidates to ever attempt to run for president. I can assure you while I love cheap beer, guns, and freedom, I'm not a redneck, a racist, a believer of God, or even really fond of NASCAR...I do own a pickup truck though so I'm sure that puts me in some category.
Also, it's not really a media conspiracy against Trump, it's most of a blatantly obvious dislike of him fueled by questionable reporting and extreme bias. If you can't see that, then you're ignoring what's being said and only hearing what you want to hear. Clinton was the media's darling and CNN did everything they could to skew everything they reported about the election in her favor. If Wolf Blitzer would have come out and said "you know Trump is literally the love child of Hitler and Satan and Clinton is Jesus reincarnated to bring peace on Earth" I wouldn't have been shocked in the slightest.
And why would the media dislike Trump so much if he is no different from the others?
Which media?
BTW just in case you forgot, the U.S. is not a democracy.
Actually, the US is a bit of both democracy and republic, as it's actually a democratic republic.WOW, the u.s is now a democracy?
Actually, the US is a bit of both democracy and republic, as it's actually a democratic republic.
No, you are a democratic republic, considering that if you were solely a republic, then you'd have been something like China. The word 'democratic' is the biggest difference between the US and China, nature-wise.We are a constitutional republic, that is fact.
No, you are a democratic republic, considering that if you were solely a republic, then you'd have been something like China. The word 'democratic' is the biggest difference between the US and China, nature-wise.
Are you going to bother with providing evidence, or are you just going to sum it up with a 'wrong'?Wrong.
The countries that put any variety of "Republic" or "Democratic" in their letterhead are usually the last ones you should go off of as a point of comparison to what either word means.No, you are a democratic republic, considering that if you were solely a republic, then you'd have been something like China. The word 'democratic' is the biggest difference between the US and China, nature-wise.
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government.[1] At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen".
The US is a democracy. That is why there are elections.
Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, Dēmokratía literally "rule of the commoners"), in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament.
The indirect election of the president through the electoral college conforms to the concept of republic as one with a system of indirect election.
A republic (from Latin: res publica) is a sovereign state or country[1] which is organized with a form of government in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body[2][3] and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law.