Republicans not backing Trump

[vgane]

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Republicans not backing Trump:

- Bush family
- Paul Ryan
- Mitt Romney
- Lindsey Graham
- Ron Paul
- Glenn Beck

Source:The Int'l Spectator

 

[tbs]

hi

still HE has more potential.....finally everybody has to accept for fight against DEMOCRATS...here in USA...individual is more

powerful than party....

 

[vgane]

It is going to be a tough fight for Trump! As it stands the gap between Hillary & Trump is about 28%

 

[kunjuppu]

personally, i would not be too surprised if trump wins. hilary has a reputation for the sleaze. she would get elected primarily because afro americans and mexican hispanics in the usa will vote overwhelmingly for her.

as we know in india, a dedicated mass vote by a single group, has out of proportion in election results, assuming other communities are evenly split. which is why the politicans pamper to special interest groups.

having said the above, i have a gut feeling, that the usa is increasingly polarized with the whites voting as a bloc, in many regions.

the thing with trump, is that in his agenda, there is atleast one issue, which a person feels strongly about - illegal immigration, loss of jobs, wall street greed. the whites who support trump, not necessarily want a small government. they want their entitlements and freebies from uncle sam, but they all appear to fear the rise of minorities to proportion of power, outside of their population size. also the minorities are growing at such a rate, that the critical white base is now alarmingly fast declining.

this is what i think.

 

[tbs]

personally, i would not be too surprised if trump wins. hilary has a reputation for the sleaze. she would get elected primarily because afro americans and mexican hispanics in the usa will vote overwhelmingly for her.

as we know in india, a dedicated mass vote by a single group, has out of proportion in election results, assuming other communities are evenly split. which is why the politicans pamper to special interest groups.

having said the above, i have a gut feeling, that the usa is increasingly polarized with the whites voting as a bloc, in many regions.

the thing with trump, is that in his agenda, there is atleast one issue, which a person feels strongly about - illegal immigration, loss of jobs, wall street greed. the whites who support trump, not necessarily want a small government. they want their entitlements and freebies from uncle sam, but they all appear to fear the rise of minorities to proportion of power, outside of their population size. also the minorities are growing at such a rate, that the critical white base is now alarmingly fast declining.

this is what i think.

hi

some are fed up with both parties....some want OUTSIDER from washington....

 

[prasad1]

Martin Stewart

The sad part is he may be elected as president. It just shown the fallacy of democracy. They did elect Hitler, so this too should not surprise us.

 

[prasad1]

No military coup has taken place in recent weeks. No elected prime minister has been beheaded. No nation has suspended its constitution. And yet a debate rages on the dangers facing the democratic order. The irresistible rise of one Donald Trump in US politics has made a commentator call the ongoing presidential election campaign, “dystopian”. It is not the Chinese or Russian journals that are out to malign American democracy. The mainstream American media is full of damning opinion pieces. Take just two latest headlines. America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny. Donald Trump and the Authoritarian Temptation.
What did Trump do? He gathered incredible support in his race for the Republican nomination by fuelling popular passion against liberal values. He demonised the Mexicans and Muslims and projected himself as a leader who could ignore laws and wield unrestricted power to propel America towards its manifest destiny – a process, according to him, subverted by the “liberal elite”. This billionaire businessman promises to undo the damage done by the previous occupants of the White House!
His promises cannot be subjected to a rational debate. It is difficult to argue with the voters who use their democratic right to be illiberal! With uncivil attacks on his opponents and the promise of a new order in which he would vanquish Muslim terrorists and Mexican rapists, Trump mesmerised a large section frustrated by economic hardship. He infused a kind of religious fervour among his followers and intensified the desire for change even among those who do not speak his lingo. As it happens, his likely opponent in the Presidential race, Hillary Clinton, represents continuity, not change!
The rise of Trump has shocked those Americans who cherish democracy and fear that President Trump would undermine the Constitution or persecute a minority. Andrew Sullivan sees America becoming a breeding ground for tyranny. He cites a line from Plato’s Republic: ”… tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.”

https://www.opendemocracy.net/l-k-sharma/trump-diminishes-democracy

 

[prasad1]

In a cover story for New York, Andrew Sullivan offers up what might be the ultimate long-view look at Donald Trump's candidacy: Hearkening back to Plato's Republic, Sullivan makes the case that Trump is a threat to our very democracy and must be stopped. Plato thought democracies were especially susceptible to "tyranny" the longer they lasted and the more democratic they became, and the US seems to be in exactly the kind of "late-stage democracy" ripe for such a thing, writes Sullivan. Watching Trump's rise over the past year, it has been " increasingly hard not to see in Plato’s vision a murky reflection of our own hyperdemocratic times and in Trump a demagogic, tyrannical character plucked directly out of one of the first books about politics ever written." Sullivan concedes he may be "overreacting," but he warns that Republicans and Democrats must unite against Trump.
http://www.newser.com/story/224458/for-democracy-trump-is-an-extinction-level-event.html