The odd part in all this is that if the discussion was just on the issues, we'd all likely agree, and not just on what is a problem, but on a lot of the solutions, too. It wasn't Trump's originally claimed political stance at the start of the Primary season that was so terribly different from the next Conservative over, it was his behaviour once the ball got rolling that caused a breach of faith, of trust, and finally, the Party.
With this I can agree. I never believed Trump was a "converted" conservative, I always believed that was a phony act to gain our support because he could never win the Democrat nomination while the Clinton machine had a death grip on the party.
I felt that most conservatives would support the tried and true fighter we had in Ted Cruz, and Cruz was winning so Trump started cheating. (While the media gleefully helped him do it.)
Trump won the primary by cheating (going way over the line, repeating scurrilous accusations that were just immoral and bound to create serious and damaging rifts) but he did win it. I was quite disgusted by the manner in which he secured the nomination, but the rest of the party did not heed my counsel.
They wanted a brawler and a winner and they simply did not care how dirty or underhanded he needed to be so long as he would do what it took to win. I actually sympathized with that perspective, because after all the namby pampy gentleman losers we've had losing what should have been easy races, I too wanted someone who would let lose and knock people on their @$$.
But I wanted that person to be Ted Cruz.
And now that choice is off the table, so I have to pick Donald or Hillary. I pick Not-Hillary.
Some followed the man, others stayed with principles. Burying principles to support a person some see as the one to repair what will take all of us working hard to fix this Republic is where we will disagree.
It isn't the problem, so much as the proposed solution.
Perhaps when this disaster is over those of us who want to restore the Republic can craft a plan to do so.
I doubt it. There really isn't much left of the old Republic to work with now. We have slowly (under the influence of Liberal controlled media services) evolved into a pseudo socialist democracy, and one from which more than half the population receives benefits from the Government.
If there
*is* to be any hope of repairing it, we simply cannot have another blatantly socialist President. It is already probably beyond repair, and I think a Hillary Presidency will send us down the path of Rome, which incidentally died of the same maladies currently affecting us.