Basically, he's taking his lemming supporters over the cliff with all of this.
It's possible to "rig" a poll or falsify one, but most are done according to a careful scientific regimen with random-sampling and possibly stratified sampling to yield more accurate results. Trump is losing; and when he loses, he and his band of fascists will say it was rigged.
I think for you folks in the middle, practical people, something has been going on under our noses.
Bush's double-war -- one unnecessary costing $3 trillion -- it gobbled up a good chunk of future tax revenue so that the domestic programs and spending would be starved. They lowered taxes when they should have raised them. And all this time, Grover Norquist was collecting pledges and vowing to "drown it [the federal level] in a bathtub."
Further, they have corrupted the civil service. This has been done through years in GOP administrations that discourage sensible management like process-improvement. Outsourcing has also crippled federal agencies because it has left the career service bereft of the experience of doing the work so they can at least administer contracts to do it well. You've seen all the scandals: GAO, IRS, Minerals Management Service, hiring a horse-show director for FEMA, and the list goes on.
This is an insurgency, and their goal is to bring down the government as we know it. They complain about taxes, they encourage tax-cheating with Trump's dog-whistle about "paying as little as possible," but taxes have never been lower since their peak level in the 1950s.
The real underlying opposition to Obama has essentially been due to the fact that "he's black." They think this was some sort of "affirmative action gift" with his election in 08 and '12. The entire underbelly of the Trump and Tea Party movement is racist, and they'll never admit it.
Even so, they have actually admitted it from the recordings taken at Trump rallies. In their shouts and slogans, they connected their "political correctness" imaginary peeve with a desire to "get the N----- out of the White House."
If they want to damage the country, they could do no better than promote Trump. Somebody said "We don't want a statesman! We want somebody who is [mean-faced or mean] to stick it to the world!" There is nothing rational at all about these sentiments.
The man would serve the public best as a barker or announcer in the WWWF Smackdowns on TV. He speaks the language of the gutter; he rambles on in a conversational mode which appeals to people crippled in their own language. They see the world and its politics as an NFL game.
But they are not interested in the Truth. They think they can simply tell a story and that it's "reality."
Donald Trump lacks character. By contrast, you could compare him to Lincoln, and there's no contest with that. Compare him to Franklin Roosevelt, a man crippled by polio -- Trump would crumble under the burdens that Roosevelt brought into his term in office. Compare him to Eisenhower, who carried the burden of 500,000 dead soldiers and many more wounded. No contest.
And -- yes -- as someone said, the blame is with that portion of the electorate.
Frankly, I just wish they would try and take over another wildlife refuge or attempt to occupy a federal armory. "Go ahead -- skin that smoke-wagon and go to work!"
I'm tired of all the talk. They've done enough foolish things already because they didn't get their exclusive way with government -- so far.
Maybe I also forgot Theodore Roosevelt: "Speak softly but carry a big stick." They don't want a leader who speaks softly. they see the world like an NFL game or the SPEED channel.
It's a complete deterioration of what was -- R.I.P. -- the American Character. These folks aren't depicted in the 1947 movie "The Best Years of Our Lives." They have nothing to do with that.
Spoiled, whining, chicken-littles. They want the social-class who created their outsourcing and unemployment problems to magically fix it. They want a magical fix for ISIS.
But above all, they're a pack of Liars whose strategy is to keep up the mantra that everybody else is a Liar.
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