For cripes sake, give it a rest already. You are opposed to Donald Trump because you have no frame of reference to understand the man --- I'm pretty sure you haven't run into him while digging for water in the mud or throwing your home-cured meat on a snow bank to freeze, or while dancing with your horse. And you hate what you cannot understand. Got it.
But this hate just blinds you to the fact that in principle and action Donald Trump is the most politically conservative president in more than three decades; and it blinds you to how absurd your posts about him being a liberal truly are. They're also tiresome and worn and are beginning to lower the average IQ of the forum.
Please, I'm begging you .... snap out it!
No frame of reference? Honey, we're out here past the outfield, in flyover country. We get the wide shot, not the close up. You, who use NYC as your avatar are the one who has the restricted view and little frame of reference.
I am indifferent to the man, I don't know him personally, and it is unlikely anyone here does. I do believe he is beset by partisan forces in DC who wish only to preserve their corrupt wealth generating syndicate at the expense of our treasure and our rights, fundamentally enslaving all Americans in their debt while they live well, and who have spent a boatload of our money to try and entrap the man. While using falsehood against him may be somewhere in his Karma, it has never set well with me that anyone give false witness against others, and there are much more lucrative lines of prosecution remaining--the unpicked low-hanging prosecutorial plums left over from the last administration that those enraptured at the thought of bringing this POTUS down should have pursued long ago if their actions were for the law and not based on party politics.
All I can measure President Trump by are his actions, words, deeds, and the results which will be spun one way or the other, depending on who is doing it. As for reference points, I have the Constitution, some fundamental principles, the law, and that's plenty that doesn't move to measure that which does. It is the stake by which tells one whether the tide is coming in or going out. My viewpoint isn't crippled by "New York Values", hero worship, awe of the wealthy, or the sparkle of celebrity.
As for the "most conservative in three decades", well that bar isn't so very high. Clinton, Obama, and a couple of Bushes aren't a hell of a lot to be more Conservative than. But that also introduces relativism into your metrics, not a fixed reference, nor principles, so you are back to the 'lesser evil' concept, which is part of the problem. As the situation grows more evil (less Constitutional) overall, the lesser evil becomes progressively more evil. So, you snap out of it.
None of those other administrations ever decided a gun stock is a machine gun, and one of them decided it wasn't.
None of those other administrations signed off on eliminating employee expenses (Form 2106) and as a result I and others are taxed on the fuel we burn to perform our jobs, even though without that expense we have no job.
etc.
As I said, I am indifferent to the man, but something for which I have an abiding distaste are snake oil salesmen who come braying that something is what it obviously isn't. So stop trying to sell him as a bloody saint.
