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Muslims don’t need stickers when they are openly exposing their loyalty to the ideology that threatens us all. The Boston bombers, and the shooters from Fort Hood, San Bernardino, and Orlando all had more than just a few red flags going on that we missed. [/quote]
It is unclear what you think this has to do with the awesome stupidity of a government policy predicated on discovering the individual, interior religious convictions of millions of people.
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Sure, Trump doesn’t know shit, and neither do our current “experts” like Obama, Hillary and GW Bush. [/quote]
Their politics aside, each of those three people forgets in a single day more than Trump will ever know about public policy and world affairs (not that that’s terribly impressive: the same can be said of some high-school gym teachers). No one believes that any of them don’t understand the very most basic things about governance. And none of them have a habit of openly proposing the economic and geopolitical decimation of the United States of America.
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Can you explain to my why a trailer trash opioid-snorting white boy is worse than a gangbanging inner city thug who voted for Obama for nothing more than his skin tone and promises of “dat free shit” ?[/quote]
Of course I can. The former is trying to elect someone overtly skeptical of Article 5 of the NAT, and is therefore raising the likelihood of geopolitical catastrophe above my current threshold of tolerance; the latter did not. That’s one example. There are hundreds more, none of them having anything to do with politics so much as basic, binary reality.
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We can examine the dropout rates among minorities who voted for Obama and their HS dropout rates if you like, it would probably mirror or be worse than those stupid crackers who plan to vote for Trump. [/quote]
This wasn’t some subset of Trump voters. These were the data most predictive of Trump support at the county level – anywhere, nationwide. You can take a look at a nationwide analysis of 08 or 12 voting trends and see whether a comparable story is told in aggregate about any candidate involved in those elections.
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Our principles have been stripped already, tell me the last Conservative speaker to lecture at a university who wasn’t chased out of the auditorium nude.[/quote]
I’m a free-marketplace-of-ideas zealot, but if you think that students whining about or protesting or boycotting campus speakers contravenes some Constitutional principle, you have it literally and exactly backward.
Good thing that, statistically, none of this is ever going to happen to you or anyone you know.
Don’t get me wrong: I want a POTUS who is intelligent and tough on terror (i.e., not Trump). But there is a word for the exaggeration of risks and threats and fears beyond their objective dimensions: cowardice. We have spent a lot of time on Trumpism as a vehicle for the delusions of the stupid, but it is just as clearly a vehicle for the cruel cravenness of the fearful.