Voting For Freedom In America

SPEAKING OF ACCEPTING CRAZY AS NORMAL, I still like Donald Trump, that fact still freaks me out, but he's starting to wear thin, and I suspect many other Americans feel the same way. How much craziness can even the United States tolerate? (Let's face it; a whole lot.) Trump is bad news, America's answer to Hitler, full of bombast and promises of national glory regained, full of unreasonable hatreds, entirely unsuited by temperament for the job of president. Republicans as well as democrats realize this. That so many people support Trump only because of their hatred of Hillary is a true testament to American's capacity for hatred, and lack of reason. Even "crooked Hillary" is, at best, much more experienced than Trump in government, and at the very least, is sane, comparatively. Pissed off republicans - and there are many of them - might wish to consider the libertarian party, which has a couple of former republican governors on its ticket, and looks very attractive and moderate. We must, however, at all costs never revert to economic libertarianism, otherwise known as "neo-liberalism" or "trickle down economics", or "supply side economics", or "Reaganomics". The minimum wage law is good for America. So are the anti-trust acts, and some reasonable regulation of the financial services industry. But let's deep six Trump's crazy great wall of mexico idea, and his anti-Islamic phobia. And if you really want to get rid of "big government", why not start by getting rid of big wars overseas, and getting rid of several hundred unnecessary American military bases all over the world, in places like Europe and Japan and the Island of Diego Garcia, places where the locals should be defending themselves. Long live American freedom!