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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo The Republicans Have Got.....
nothing. No policies, no proposals, no vision, no direction. A week of a convention and all they've got is "Hillary Bad!" as a platform. Who came up with this. Frankenstein? America Good, Fire Bad! Grrrrr! That about sums up what they've presented. Their speeches have been more like WWE interviews with wrestlers. Trump appeared out of smoke with blaring music. What's next? Will Trump drop cash on the crowd from the ceiling? Will he challenge Hillary to a steel cage match during his acceptance speech? At a time when we need honest policy debate we get professional wrestling as politics from one of the major parties. Have we really gone this far off the rails as a nation? Has the Republican mission to destroy public education advanced to the stage where critical thinking skills have finally be extinguished and this is what sways people? How do you conduct an election where one candidate presents policies and a plan and the other just yells "You bad! You very very bad"? I guess we're about to find out.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)so from their point of view, it is not only not a problem, it's a team-building cheer.
And, it completely avoids the dangerous sinkholes that real policy statements by Mr T steer into.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)does not make a platform of policies and goals.
Beach Rat
(273 posts)They've got ahh. Just give me a minute....No, you're right. They've got zero, zip, zilch, nada, niente, doodley squat. Hillary Bad! Aarrgh! Frightening.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)..."It's crazy watching the villagers with lit torches and pitchforks cheering to elect Frankenstein to lead them."