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To be perfectly honest, I don't plan on voting for Trump or Clinton but every day when I read news and watch TV... it seems the biased media keeps "shouting" at me to not vote for Trump... what that does instead is make me want to vote for Trump... its almost like reverse psychology, the more someone tells me NOT to do something, the stronger the urge to go out and do it... anyone else feels this way?
I don't see the feminization, over-sensitization and "special snowflake" mentality within our society as evidence of some huge Left-wing plot; I do see them as a negative, and powerful side-effect of the emancipation of women (which is the single most potent societal change of our time, and is essentially unstoppable).
To some degree, all of us are at least a little "afraid of freedom' -- to acknowledge it is also to acknowledge that time and nature will eventually, slowly and certainly, take it away. So we build a "safety net" -- privately if we have the means, usually in conjunction with some group -- family, religious, fraternal, or whatever, and with reliance upon the public sector as a last resort. And several trends within our society -- the weakening of family structure and the "enforcement" (right or wrong) of "traditional" lifestyles and values, and the creation of a new component of the underclass (non-Westernized immigrants and "casualties" of the breakdown) who are the psychological cannon fodder for a battle between two less-than-first class Presidential candidates.
I don't care for Trump -- he's a buffoon offered to people who feel alienated and ignored by the over-sensitized "mainstream" cited above. If he is elected, he'll get a fast lesson in how things have to get done day-to day. But the represents our best, and possibly last chance to drive a monkey wrench into the belly of a beast determined to reduce our nation back to a sham Mexican-modeled pseudo-democracy.
My strongest sympathies lie with Johnson and Weld; I was there when the first stirrings of the libertarian movement began on dozens of campuses back in the late Sixties. But if my native Pennsylvania is up for grabs come Election Day, I'll have no choice but to hold my nose.
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 09-21-2016 at 12:25 PM..
To be perfectly honest, I don't plan on voting for Trump or Clinton but every day when I read news and watch TV... it seems the biased media keeps "shouting" at me to not vote for Trump... what that does instead is make me want to vote for Trump... its almost like reverse psychology, the more someone tells me NOT to do something, the stronger the urge to go out and do it... anyone else feels this way?
you're right that if its the biased media shouting at you than yeah, it ought to make you and others think about WHY they're shouting at you and the answer is pretty simple.....the boiler room payments in the unmarked envelopes with cash, fancy vacations, caviar and expensive cigars, hot tubs and backrubs all go away if Trump wins...Hillary? The poster woman for corruption won't do a thing and won't care or change a thing, all these 'crooked politicians' get to keep their 'perks' if she wins....thus, a lot of people with a lot to lose.
To be perfectly honest, I don't plan on voting for Trump or Clinton but every day when I read news and watch TV... it seems the biased media keeps "shouting" at me to not vote for Trump... what that does instead is make me want to vote for Trump... its almost like reverse psychology, the more someone tells me NOT to do something, the stronger the urge to go out and do it... anyone else feels this way?
Use your own brain and listen to a variety of sources rather than being a sheep and listening to just the media.
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