It was John McCain.
I think there is a case to be made there. And health care remains a disaster, because of terrible federal policies that Obamacare did nothing to address.
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It was John McCain.
I think there is a case to be made there. And health care remains a disaster, because of terrible federal policies that Obamacare did nothing to address.
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Oh, my voting for the DEM who won in IL-14 had nothing to do with John McCain. It had to do with a GOP that was ok with Trump.
I won’t be voting for a republican in any election from now on. Not for president, not for dogcatcher.
Well, I resolved to never vote for a Democrat back in the 90s, after the Clintons, and they’ve done many things since to reinforce that resolve (latest being Kavanaugh). I don’t generally vote Republican, and Trump is terrible, but he can’t get me to vote Democrat.
And your state finances are the mess they are now because so many of your fellow Illinois voters do the same. I wonder if your state declaring bankruptcy will change any minds.
Obama’s policy was to create as much division in the county as possible. He succeeded and Trump was the result. Your polarization is Obama’s success.
The point of the link was that Republicans didn’t get their healthcare victory and that if they did, the policies would have provided tangible benefits for voters. This was important because healthcare has been not just a big issue for Republicans, who felt betrayed by their party and McCain, but also was a big issue during the midterms.
You don’t like Trump but other people look at policies before deciding who to vote for. And it has to be said that the Democrats and their media have created a crazy alternate reality that bears little resemblance to actual reality. We are living through a cultish mass delusion and literally nothing can be done to reach some people because it isn’t about being right or wrong on any particular issue but rather being right or wrong about their very view of existence and self.
We are living through a cultish mass delusion and literally nothing can be done to reach some people
Indeed, after 2 years of hearing how the Russians influenced our election by purchasing Facebook ads; we have Democrats objecting to Republicans preventing the count of non-citizen votes, while at the same time claiming that preventing such counts is playing into Putin’s hands.
@Paul D.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Trump?
You mean President Donald Trump?
The guy who was kept us out of a deeper involvement in Syria and direct confrontation with the Russians, apart from a “rap across the knuckles” to the Assad regime to keep chemical weapon “incidents” out of the headlines. Who ordered our generals to “do something” about ISIS without it turning into a quagmire, and the generals made this happen?
The same guy who at least got talks going with the North Koreans, an action our South Korean ally supports?
The same Trump where after the economy recovering at the slowest pace ever is now rip roaring that billboards are sprouting up everywhere begging people to apply for job openings?
The same Trump that is getting quiet cooperation from the Mexican government and a new bilateral trade agreement?
The same Trump that has China concerned that it isn’t business-as-usual flooding slave-labor products on the U.S. market and stealing US intellectual property?
The same Trump who appointed a hard-working, smart guy who works from the black-letter US Constitution, that had Democrats in such a panic that people were just coming out of the woodwork accusing him of stuff, none of it backed up and a lot of it being walked back without much Media attention?
The same Trump for whom the leaders of Bigfoot European countries who have very high opinions of themselves (cough, Merkel, cough, Macron, cough May) sneer at, but who is loved by the leaders of Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, you know, the “captive nations” during the Cold War, people who know genuine oppression first hand?
That Trump? Just asking.
Who counts the votes?
Democrats, obviously.
I may be channeling the shades of two of my heroes, Mencken and Nock, but I’m pessimistic about the fate of the Republic anyway. As Jefferson, I think, pointed out, free republics tend to be short-lived; and way back in the Thirties, another Old Right pessimist, Garet Garrett, in the essay “The People’s Pottage,” accused Americans of trading their birthright of liberty for “the mess of pottage” offered them by the New Deal. These days “the marching morons” get Eloi-like when a politician promises them free healthcare.