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I agree with your assessment. HRC represents the "devil you know" to many people vs. "the one you don't" (Trump). A lot of how people feel is fueled by our hype

I agree with your assessment. HRC represents the "devil you know" to many people vs. "the one you don't" (Trump). A lot of how people feel is fueled by our hyperbolic, news-as-entertainment industry, but not all of it. It's not irrational paranoia to believe your government operates as a separate entity, one that is not subject to the rule of law. From the Iraq war, to torture, to retroactively legal bulk collection, to immunity granted to telecoms for doing illegal surveillance, to no one going to jail in response to 2008, the list goes on and on. We have a government all too happy to throw millions of us in jail for the most minor of offenses, yet the same rules don't appear to apply to the people constantly on our TV screens or ones that aren't with enough connections. HRC is not the devil, but she represents something deeply unsavory to a lot of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum. Trump is an obvious mad man. The fact that so many people are willing to give such a man the ability to unilaterally destroy humanity speaks volumes about where western civilization is at right now.

smsm42 10y ago
Nobody gives anybody ability to destroy humanity, no need for histrionics. We don't have elections for God or Emperor, just President, whose powers are large but limited. This is what the whole idea of limited government with independent branches is about. The same idea the current President is working so hard to destroy.
- alistproducer2 10y ago
  While there is a chain of command that could potentially stop a rogue president from unilaterally ordering a nuclear strike, at the end of the day the POTUS has an immense power in his ability to order a nuclear strike.
  - smsm42 10y ago
    This whole nuclear strike thing is a canard, nobody is going to nuclear strike anybody. Yes, there's a chain of command, and also Trump is not some Hollywood supervillain. He is a real estate developer, a conman and a blowhard, not a Doctor Evil. So we need to stop discussing Hollywood scenarios and start discussing real issues the country is facing.

smsm42 10y ago

Nobody gives anybody ability to destroy humanity, no need for histrionics. We don't have elections for God or Emperor, just President, whose powers are large but limited. This is what the whole idea of limited government with independent branches is about. The same idea the current President is working so hard to destroy.

alistproducer2 10y ago
While there is a chain of command that could potentially stop a rogue president from unilaterally ordering a nuclear strike, at the end of the day the POTUS has an immense power in his ability to order a nuclear strike.
- smsm42 10y ago
  This whole nuclear strike thing is a canard, nobody is going to nuclear strike anybody. Yes, there's a chain of command, and also Trump is not some Hollywood supervillain. He is a real estate developer, a conman and a blowhard, not a Doctor Evil. So we need to stop discussing Hollywood scenarios and start discussing real issues the country is facing.