(08-10-2024, 11:23 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I've been telling you guys for a couple years now that moderates are the problem in this country. Marty. Mikey. Copycat. JagorDie. RicoTX.

It's not that they are bad people, or even that they are wrong about Trump. It's their inability to broaden their view to see that their "principles" are easily manipulated by bad actors.

Trump is a narcissist. So is almost every politician. Trump is a liar. So is almost every politician. Trump says bad things about people. So does almost every other politician. I believe Americans are so comfortable, that even though they can see things are heading in the wrong direction, they've become more concerned with protecting their own comfortability than doing the hard thing and forcing a reset.

Trump is inarticulate. Every slip of his tongue is magnified and broadcast out to millions of people by a media that has a vested interest in preserving the status quo. However, he has a proven track record of being measured in action if you look at his policies.

Kamala is inarticulate. Every slip of her tongue is buried and excused to millions of people by a media that has a vested interest in preserving the status quo. However, she has a proven track record of forcing bad policies on people via her association with the Biden campaign.

The complacent in our country care far too much about the voice of the establishment, who are really the main culprits shaping the image of these politicians. Yes. Trump says dumb things. He's his own worst enemy. Got it. If he were a supporting the establishment, you wouldn't have half of it broadcast to you. EVERY single person who claimed they didn't understand Biden was "that old" is admitting they were uninformed and lied to. He didn't get "that old" overnight. You simply weren't given an accurate picture. Instead of waking up and realizing that it's the media that's lying to you, you fall for the second half of that trick, which is them convincing you that they didn't know he was "that old" either and you should accept a younger person in his place.... without voting for her, btw.

You guys are so easily manipulated. It saddens me, because we need everyone to start pushing back against the establishment, but we can't because of TRUMP. Unfortunately, we only can because of Trump, too. At some point, you're going to have to face the hard issue of your own discomfort. We may as well start with words, because the result of these progressive policies is going to be SO much worse.

I never said I WAS a moderate. I said he NEEDS the moderates. The election is quite literally a popularity contest. The nation is divided. There is a large portion who have decided who they are going to vote for or against regardless of what he says or does politically. There is no point in pandering to those. He needs to swing the ones in middle, like it or not, that’s how you win. Joe didn’t win the last election, trump lost. Every time he got on Twitter and chased the pointless likes during his time in the Oval Office, he was doing damage that ended up biting him in the [BLEEP] November of 2020. I remember after the first debate in 2020 coming into work(where we have a very mixed bag of people) and seeing a small sample of what was to come. The right leaning were saying how terrible joe looked and how right trump was in his attacks and the left reciprocated that in reverse, but the people who were sort apathetic to politics seemed almost shocked at how much a rambling mess trump came off as in the end. I remember the sentiment sort of being “did he eat a ton of adderall? He couldn’t stop himself”. Unfortunately, those same apathetic people have a vote that count exactly as much as yours and, like it or not, coming across favorably to them will pay massive dividends in November.

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