(03-27-2018, 01:21 AM)BigJag57 Wrote: So I haven't been around for a bit, more lurking than anything I suppose which is normal for me this time of year, so HI!! 

Lets plan to just have a civil and calm discussion about this, no more. 

If you voted for Trump and was encouraged by him winning up to this point, why do you think he's truly making America great again? Like, show me, with valid journalistic sources, proof that he's doing the country good. 

If you voted for Trump and was encouraged by him winning up to this point, and now you regret it. What has he done that made you come to this decision? 

I feel like I, for once, would like to come to a deeper understanding as to why there can be such a major divide between people due to their political views. People who would otherwise probably get along pretty great! I know that I have had just as much fond memories with my Republican friends as I have with my more liberal friends. Two different kinds of experiences, but both coming together would definitely top them all.

It's very, very simple - and you don't need "journalistic sources" to see the simple truth, either.  Today's "journalistic sources" are more biased today than they've ever been.  Most, especially mainstream, will give you the extreme view from either side.

He has, in year one:

cut taxes
lower unemployment rate (minorities have never been in a better position in recent history)
more people are moving off welfare and food stamps than they are moving to them
historic reduction in illegal immigration
defeated ISIS
restarting NASA
strengthened the economy (the market is reflecting the reduction of punitive regulatory policy of the previous administration)
repealed the unconstitutional employer mandate
appointed the most qualified and accomplished Supreme Court justice in decades
pulled out of Paris Climate Accord
reduced the number of federal employees
actually acted on moving on Congress' decades old decision to move the Israelian embassy to Jerusalem
filled court vacancies at a historic pace
opened ANWAR
US oil production highest since 1970
stands up to foreign leaders rather than bow to them - Russia, North Korea, China all stronger stances against than our past leadership

All this can be found in "journalistic sources," whether they are celebrating or lamenting these facts.  These accomplishments are predictably, routinely, and summarily dismissed by the radical left.

It is a similar litmus test for those who will respond to the facts in this post as well.

Historically speaking, the facts show he has few peers for how much he's accomplished in year one.

I am probably as surprised as anyone at this.  He certainly was not my first choice.  He was, however, is who we needed.  There is no perfect candidate who you are going to like 100%.  Political hacks attacking those who support him pretend this isn't true.  It's just their veil to attack him and his supporters in their cult war.  It shouldn't need to be repeated, but we got the best of two bad candidates.  But what makes Trump "bad" to most folks on both sides, is that he's not the career politician so many blindly accept and desire.  Most people, particularly those on the radical left, fall in line like sheep behind candidates who have the capital letter they prefer by their name.  Trump is not the same.  He's attacked by those committed to either capital letter.

So, as the capital letters wage their uncivil war... I reject both of them.  We all should.  The career politicians are killing their country like parasites gutting their host.

Few get this.

I support the good he's accomplished.  I certainly don't blindly support him or every single thing he does.  I also do not blindly reject him and every single thing he does.  There's good and bad in everyone.  We should have seen the blanket rejection of Trump coming from miles away after seeing the reaction from the left after the 2000 election (which they still deny was won by Bush, just as they deny Trump won.)  The radical left will "resist" anything not aligned with themselves.  It's their mantra.  It's their war.  It will not end well.  But it must end.

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