(09-22-2024, 10:01 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(09-22-2024, 01:11 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: If you want to ask me whether the country was better off under Trump than under Biden, I would say no.  I think Trump's allegation that the 2020 election was stolen, and his leading millions of people into that belief, did enormous damage to the country.

What kind of damage?  Did it make the cost of living go up or increase the flow of fentanyl across the border?  How about the flow of illegal migrants?  Did all those homeless encampments materialize as a direct result?  Mob robberies?  Drug addiction?  Aren't those problems worse now than they were 4 years ago?

It inflamed his supporters to the point that they don't trust elections anymore.  Trusting the election process is essential to having a democracy (or in our case, a democratic republic).  It led to the storming of the nation's Capitol.  It pushed us closer to something previously unthinkable, a civil war.  In fact, we are now so polarized and mistrustful of each other that we can't deal with our problems effectively.  Donald Trump is a poison pill.  Our adversaries couldn't have picked a better person to damage this country.

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