2020 Election MEGAthread

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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In regards to the sudden wealth of information you shared about his character, perhaps you'd like to expound on your 2016 vote?

Were you hoping to encourage the Southern District to lay into the country club nemesis? Was that a long play? Or were you charmed?

People do change their minds, for example I voted for Obama the first time because I believed McCain was a warmonger and my vote for President is primarily predicated on who will kill the least soldiers. I am mostly a single-issue voter and my issue is the foreign policy blood-price. That why as a conservative Republican I voted for a liberal Democrat. By the time 2012 rolled around I gave my vote to Romney because I was wrong about Obama's proclivity to kill people to advance his foreign policy so I reverted back to my roots. I figured Romney could not possibly be a bigger killer and his policies more closely matched mine.

But...if I had personal insight into Obama in 2008, if I knew his character from personal experience, and I saw that he was an unprincipled man who cared more about power than about the consequence of his policies, if I saw that he was a bumbling fool who put on collegiate airs and used big words to hide his towering ignorance of realpolitk and that he was willing to spend lives to hide his incompetence, then I would not have voted for him. In other words, if I characterized him as negatively and as strongly from personal experience as you did regarding your experience with Trump, I would have never voted for him and taken my chances on McCain. Lacking insight into their true characters, I picked one or the other on the basis of what I had, which was mostly their manufactured public image.

So what happened in 2016? You might think I'm trying to pick a fight but I'm really curious. Were you just seeing what would happen? Were you thinking the office changes the man...for the better?

I voted for him in 2016 because I thought it would benefit me in many ways monetarily ( because of that, I'm certainly not holier than thou by any means). However, then it did not. Financial deregulation has not gone nearly where he promised it would/where I thought it would. My taxes have gone up by 5 figures due to Trump's tax plan. Just as some examples.

So, when you take away the monetary reasons I voted for him, I'm left with a corrupt, incapable individual who can't even manage to hide his own idiocy to the public. If I was making a lot more money under Trump (which I thought I would be) then I probably would have voted for him again, but if you're going to be a total moron and disaster in most ways you gotta at least make me money if you want me to vote for you lol.