or maybe they voted for the lesser of two evils

i thought i saw where like 50% of the voters polled admitting to voting against the other candidate

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edit: this is from slate so it has to be true

I voted John Anderson.
I voted Ralph Nader.
I voted Jill Stein.

And I repeat: candidates of any party tell their voters "I'm not one of them; I'm here for you." That's exactly what Trump said, although a bit less eloquently, and why people voted for him and not Hillary.

No it isn't. What got us into this mess was continuing to put faith in the corrupt two-party (one party) system, including Sanders and Trump. How many of you did not vote 3rd party because "they don't have a chance to win"? How many of you voted for say, Ralph Nader when he ran (who never took a dime from corporations or the like) either in the primaries or in the general election?

So other than Putin, just who exactly is Trump beholden to ?  

Which oligarchs bought and paid for Trump along the way during his campaign ?  

Soros, the Koch brothers ?  Surely this is an easy question to answer.

He should take his time. I, for one, am totally fine with chaos and dysfunction when it comes to implementing his agenda.

 VV wrote:
Yes. Zero is not the lowest number in a down market.

The best presidencies had the best presidents. Nothing is never the worst thing that could happen.

He lasted ten days.

Total chaos. 

Huh? You're willing to wait indefinitely for zero returns? Remind me to never listen to stock tips from you.

Yes, history tells us the best presidencies were always mired in dysfunction. 

 VV wrote:
He should take his time. I, for one, am totally fine with chaos and dysfunction when it comes to implementing his agenda.

I knew he wasn't going to last as long as Renice or Spicy... but WOW what a start to yet another dysfunctional week for Trump. He beat Flynn's record and I thought that would be tough to do. Renice & Sean must certainly be laughing their asses off. The wreckage of the Trump administration continues to pile up.

Poor Mooch... we hardly knew ye.

When is Trump going to start hiring the "best" people for his administration anyway?

He never should have been in that position.  No background in it whatsoever, no credentials for it.  Besides, he is an asshat . . . maybe that was the credential?      

I knew he wasn't going to last as long as Renice or Spicy... but WOW what a start to yet another dysfunctional week for Trump. Renice & Sean must certainly be laughing their asses off. The wreckage of the Trump administration continues to pile up.

Poor Mooch... we hardly knew ye.

When is Trump going to start hiring the "best" people for his administration anyway?

He lasted ten days.

Total chaos. 

No it isn't. What got us into this mess was continuing to put faith in the corrupt two-party (one party) system, including Sanders and Trump. How many of you did not vote 3rd party because "they don't have a chance to win"? How many of you voted for say, Ralph Nader when he ran (who never took a dime from corporations or the like) either in the primaries or in the general election? I use Nader as an example since he has more accomplishments on his resume that helped the country than any 20 politicians together you can name - and he's never held a political office. He is also incorruptible.

This thread is an example, made specifically for bashing Trump generally from a Dem. Party perspective. We've allowed ourselves to become so polarized R vs. D that nothing can get done, while both parties are bought-and-paid-for corporate subsidiaries.

How many here have tried to organize a few hundred people in their Congressional districts, putting aside party labels and partisanship? How many have bucked the conversation they might have been having when someone gushed about Trump or Clinton, or your lousy Congress reps, for fear of standing out from the crowd or being chastised, and didn't use the same old lesser-of-two-evils canard?

How many of you rooted for war on Afghanistan, or later Iraq, based on zero or false evidence, except some jingoism yelled through a bullhorn by Shrub and repeated endlessly by the MSM?

I'd like to see threads for example, on getting a Constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision. I'd like to see threads on lobbying Congress, the MSM, and the White House for Trump to order the release of the data NSA has on the DNC servers and Podesta emails. Those are things worth fighting for instead of wasting energy on these fabricated sideshows.

Those are the kinds of things that got us here.

Third party candidates have not been, and will continue to not be, the game changers you imagine.