The Politics Thread (closed again)

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:In Mexico 10 years ago we had a similar situation, where the president was elected only by a 0.5% victory margin, about 100, 000 votes.
I think for situations like these a second-round should be appropriate like in other countries, without any third-party candidates.

Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
This is a genuinely good question that I'd like to see brought to the female public, why did you vote for Trump? I mean that sincerely it really interests me because he's either convinced them with his views and policies or they've simply thought Hilary is worse. Interesting topic.

Originally posted by blueeyedboy:Are we still talking about this shit?

Originally posted by BigGiRL:Perhaps it was a mistake not to let Sanders run against Trump. It should have been clear that the Democratic "new" neo-con politics has come to a full stop. All signs were red... (no pun intended...), yet the might of the demos was under estimated once again.

Now I understand that there is a lot of fear and anger in America - and the ROW - about what is to become true of all the nasty rhetoric Mr. Trump used during the election campaign(s). This is highly understandable and legit.
I do, however, believe that Mr. Trump's presidency is not going to result in institutionalized racism or institutionalized sexism (in its broadest sense).
The reform of civil rights may perhaps come to an end, but not the civil rights as such - it's not like the whole constitution has been changed overnight!

I wish you all peace - the soup is usually not eaten as hot as it has been served...

BTW...I hope that Mr. Trump makes true on his promise to invest in infrastructure and do something about the long overdue maintenance of roads and bridges! That would in fact be a blessing for all Americans.

Originally posted by Alvin:[..]
And probably will be for next 4 years...

Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
We are a nation of hypocrites and fear mongerers. When Obama got elected the world as we knew it was going to fall apart and people protested also. We're now on day 2 post election and the sun came out again, the stock market has crashed, restabilized, and gone up.

As with every new candidate, there is the great unknown. We can only hope he will guided well in his position as figurehead. In the end, we're all gonna be ok.

The whole infrastructure promise is a good place to start as Dems will (should) be willing to support this.

If we get the Trump we saw in his victory speech, we will all be fine. As HILLARY herself said, we owe him and open mind and a chance to lead.

And that's it. He is our next President, like it or not. And for the protesters chanting "not my President" I'll say the same thing I said to the idiots who protested Obama... "Yes! He is. Get over it."

Originally posted by Happy24:The "funny" thing is, that we call this democracy. 320 mil. people can "freely" choose among two candidates, one worse than the other, while those 320 mil. people have no say in choosing those two (or am I wrong?). And not only we call it democracy, but we force it to the rest of the World, wars being the usual messengers of the good news. There are no words to describe the absurdity and the obscenity really. (I am not from US, but I say "we," since Europe plays happily along)