Hillary For President

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

Do I strike you as unreasonable or unintelligent? Remember I am the only one here who has finished In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

Gymnasium types want Hillary...the Hauptschulers want Trump.

You're just the only person who claims to have read "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu". That doesn't make you the only one here who has and doesn't mean you actually understood it.

[icenine]

Obviously you would never be invited to join Madame Verdurin's Little Clan, and she is not even nobility....

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by icenine

Remember I am the only one here who has finished In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

Well pin a rose on your nose.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

Obviously you would never be invited to join Madame Verdurin's Little Clan, and she is not even nobility....

I'm not much on obedience to arbitrary authority.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by icenine

Do I strike you as unreasonable or unintelligent? Remember I am the only one here who has finished In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

Gymnasium types want Hillary...the Hauptschulers want Trump.

Now how on earth would you know that?

[HarmanKardon]

Originally Posted by icenine

Do I strike you as unreasonable or unintelligent? Remember I am the only one here who has finished In Search Of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.

Gymnasium types want Hillary...the Hauptschulers want Trump.

Priceless post...

You're right, of course. What I am trying to talk about is the discrimination between the reasonable voting for Hillary and inappropriate enthusiasm for Hillary.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Priceless post...

You're right, of course. What I am trying to talk about is the discrimination between the reasonable voting for Hillary and inappropriate enthusiasm for Hillary.

This is shaping up to be an unusual general election. Both candidates are equally disliked and equally supported by their own parties.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

This is shaping up to be an unusual general election. Both candidates are equally disliked and equally supported by their own parties.

With regard to Trump, his support within the party establishment is qualified at best, whereas Clinton's is quite solid. When it comes to the voters, the Republican voters are divided, with most traditional Republicans are decidedly uncomfortable with Trump but the Teapublicans are solidly behind him. On the Democratic side, most voters have a fairly jaundiced view of Hillary. She is mistrusted and disliked by the majority and seen as the only way to prevent a Trump presidency. And among a significant minority of Democratic voters she is detested and reviled as much as, if not more than, the #NeverTrumpers hate the Orange Menace.

Then there are the independents. Lately they've been breaking right, voting for McCain and Romney in the last two elections. If this trend continues, this election will be a toss-up. Trump could well win unless Millennials, Hispanics and Blacks come out to vote in big numbers.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

I think there is a feeling of restlessness in the country where people feel things are going wrong even if they can't exactly put their finger on what it is or how to fix it.

That's how you end up with Trump.

The restlessness mainly stems from the feeling of helplessness with regards to immigration both legal and illegal, and the imposition of unfair trade deals.

The fact that some racists inhabit the anti immigrant argument does not make it illegitimate; immigration is a labor issue. And after NAFTA trade deals produce negative reactions from a significant section of the American public.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The restlessness mainly stems from the feeling of helplessness with regards to immigration both legal and illegal, and the imposition of unfair trade deals.

No, that's your issue. Most Americans aren't nativists and bigots.