(07-04-2020, 11:41 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(07-04-2020, 10:26 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I am anti-media, anti-Marxist, and increasingly anti-Democrat. Sometimes that causes me to vouch for Trump, less so because I like the dude, and more so because this side you are vouching for is losing it's mind. I see it coming from the Republican side, too, but it's just talk for now. The left is becoming radicalized and violent, and the right will follow. One day you're going to wake up and realize you are gaslighted little twit, and you won't tell anyone, because you'll be sent to the gulag.

Regarding your gulag comment and others like it:

You need to understand that our great nation operates with carefully designed checks and balances that prevent extremism from going too far from any branch. 

The same powers that have resulted in Trump only building 3 miles of fencing instead of some grandiose wall at our southern border will also keep someone like Bernie Sanders from turning our nation into your socialist nightmares. 
There's only a small portion of "the left" that's radical or violent and their voices will be squelched by the more moderate. Just as those they elect will be checked and balanced once in office. 
These extreme worst case scenarios you toss around are fantasy and serve no one - certainly they don't lend credibility to your posts.

Exactly.
We will never go whole hog for any President's plans.  FDR didn't even get everything he wanted, and he had 2/3 majorities in both houses and 16 years in office to try.
It's the checks and balances.
You don't have to worry about any kind of centralized Marxist vision being implemented here, so long as we have respect for our checks and balances.  The Senate, the judges, and the governors checking each other and checking the president, and all of them except the judges trying not to lose their next election.
The people you should be worried about are the ones trying to undermine the checks and balances.
The ones saying that he president doesn't have to respond to any kind of query from Congress.
The ones saying he can personally involve himself in investigations and prosecutions.
The ones trying to discourage opposition candidates by starting frivolous investigations against them.
The one giving speeches in front of a bunch of customs and border patrol agents and telling them to go ahead and disobey judge's orders.
The ones failing to enforce sanctions against Russia that passed 99 to 0 in the Senate.
The ones encouraging people to disobey stay at home orders from their governors.

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