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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 04:15 PM Jun 2020

So if George Bailey had never been born ...

In the classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life," George Bailey, (Jimmy Stewart), gets to look at what his small town would be if he'd never been born. It's a nightmare.

What if Trump had never been born? Would the world be a better or worse place? Given the twists and turns of history, life isn't Hollywood and what coulda/woulda been isn't so easy to predict.

Maybe someone worse, (Cruz, - Cotton, - take your pick), would have been elected. Who knows? But in all reality, it's really difficult to imagine a worse president, or human being, than Trump.

So take your shot at imagining what the world would be had Trump never been born. IMO, it would be a lot better place. Let's hear your opinion.

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So if George Bailey had never been born ... (Original Post) Cyrano Jun 2020 OP
Better. Maybe not by much, but it would have to be a little better. In his entire privileged life... TreasonousBastard Jun 2020 #1
Read "Making History" by Stephen Frye. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #2
Better. LakeArenal Jun 2020 #3
I fixate more on what our country/lives would have been like if JFK, RFK, MLK had not been murdered hlthe2b Jun 2020 #4

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. Better. Maybe not by much, but it would have to be a little better. In his entire privileged life...
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 04:22 PM
Jun 2020

Trump has not accomplished one single thing of worth.

Every business he's tried to run has gone belly up, and there are few remnants to remember him by.

His genes gave us three deadweights who have nothing to offer. The two youngest ones may prove worthwhile, but they haven't been influenced so much by him.

And now, as President, he is destroying the country.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)
2. Read "Making History" by Stephen Frye.
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 05:07 PM
Jun 2020

In it, Hitler is never born. Things are even worse.

It's an EXCELLENT read.

hlthe2b

(102,297 posts)
4. I fixate more on what our country/lives would have been like if JFK, RFK, MLK had not been murdered
Sun Jun 28, 2020, 05:16 PM
Jun 2020

I truly believe we might NEVER have had someone like Trump in the WH. Sigh....

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