It's because Cruz is genuinely frightening. Trump is a
hypocritical blowhard who has a familiar face and is the
representative voice for the internet Troll and the heckler
before the Internet, a voice that needs to be heard or
something. I dunno - maybe we ARE a representative democracy
after all maybe? Or still an oligarchy. I dunno. I'm just glad
ppl can vote how they like. Checks and Balances works well
enough whoever gets in. === I'm not a Trump supporter. But my
brother is. He doesn't even vote and is proud of it. But my
brother is an old-school heckler: in any group of people, he'll
crack the most painful-to-the-person wisecracks where everybody
is laughing, one person is hurting but after a while even that
person who is hurting starts to adore him until there's new
fresh meat to toughen up. It's not my way or my style but to me,
he's the perfect trump supporter and honestly, even though I'm
not likely to vote for Trump, I'd support anyone's right to do
so. [I'm probably _too_ liberal come to think of it now that
I've said all of that, but whatever] === As fucked up as US
political system is, the constitution is a very powerful
document and the system *does* generally work. Granted, I feel
bad for any country that's NOT the USA because we _really do
enjoy_ bombing the shit out of brownish people and yellowish
people before that, and rounding of reddish people before that
and brownish people before that. I don't know WHY the US likes
doing those sorts of things honestly but I suspect I should've
been Canadian. I'd have made a DAMN good Canadian. But whatever.
I'm here. It's not a bad country to live in, but I think I could
probably live anywhere. === That being said, I think most Trump
supporters are assholes. But even assholes have a right to have
a say in government. === I can disagree with that. People are
not seeds. Ambiguous defeat/victory is not fertilizer. Those are
analogies designed to convince me via metaphorical associations.
== I discovered today that I'm a fan of "Protectionism". I
didn't even know what the heck that was. I looked it up. It's
basically "Keep the money with us", "Buy local" type stuff.
That's usually associated with "Make in USA" right-wing
republican values and all the other stuff that's supposed to go
with it according to the stereotype. But I'm left somewhere.
Never been democrat but lean more than way, yet never been
republican either. I just couldn't be republican. But... I could
never be democrat. I was always independent. So, if this was pre
American revolution, I'd probably have sided with the British
and been a Redcoat because I read up on Mercantalism, the
precursor to Protectionism...and yeah, I kinda agree with it. ==
