2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

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I've seen a little bit of polling re: men and overwhelmingly it is trump supporters who absolutely do not want a female president. They (wrongly) think a woman's place is in the home, they don't view women as being capable of anything more than homemaking & mothering. They have an archaic view of women.

I try not to read too much into polls but they are in my face everyday. One I recently saw showed that in 2016 roughly 50% of women choose trump! What the fuckity fuck. I do not understand the appeal at all. I hate that fucker, I hate every single thing about him, the way he looks, the way he sounds, the way he treats people make me so friggin' mad. I don't think he deserves the air he breathes. He is not a friend to America.

Doesn't make sense they'd waste money on an add targeting Republicans, and I don't see independents being hung up about gender, so they must be concerned about their own base, who also aren't hung up about gender. Shades of Hillary's "the first woman president". Why should anyone be concerned about that hooey when there are serious economic problems?

Remember when Bill Clinton coined the term "it's the economy, stupid"? There's truth in it, but the problem is that there's two economies: the rich man's economy, and the one everyone else functions in. The first one consolidates wealth and power in the hands of those who lack for nothing, the other one stagnates while the dollar depreciates. Consumer, corporate and government debt increases exponentially, but those who reap the rewards of this corrupt arrangement aren't on the hook for it, we are.

It's not a problem when it's only the poor who suffer but it's to the point where the middle class is steadily contracting, and both parties have chosen to ignore it. This isn't anything new for the Republicans, but the reason the poor and middle class have supported the Democratic Party is because they represented an alternative to the extreme inequalities inherent to laissez-faire economics. Now it appears that they can no longer make up for it with identity politics and worthless social justice rhetoric. Let's be honest, if they really cared about social justice they would have defended the national economy against the depredations of those who want everything; instead they aided and abetted them while everyone else has suffered.

People who are one paycheck away from becoming homeless don't give a shit about party politics, they're concerned about the policies that have pulled the rug out from under them. Trump doesn't really care about them, but neither does the Democratic Party, so whining about him probably isn't going to win the election.

Y'all made your bed, now you get to sleep in it.

So, nice lecture. Are u advocating for a 3^rd party? If so, great. How do you foresee that happening? Absent some legislative and judicial intervention (campaign reform) do u really think that will just happen in our lifetimes? If u live in the U.S. u know ur a “y’all” too however you’ve chosen to vote (or not). It’s ur bed too.
Does it feel good to criticize everything u perceive as wrong with the country and our republic without offering up solutions? What would RC do?