US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4297

Build the Wall: Largely symbolic, but still an effective measure against one specific type of illegal immigration. It would also signal to potential immigrants a sense of America's priorities concerning them. No guest to this country should ever feel entirely at home. They should always be aware of the fact that they are in my country and they do not have the same rights and privileges here that I do.

Force Mexico to pay for it: This is just classic imperialism, and I love it. Take a weaker neighbor and publicly bend them to your will. It has the obvious benefit of us not spending a dime on the wall, but it also has the added benefit of sending shock-waves through the geopolitical world, sending a clearer message of American exceptionalism than anything since the Iraq War (the military side of it, not the diplomatic crap that came after). This is genius.

Crush ISIS; take the oil?
Everyone wants ISIS destroyed. I know the special interests and the politicians of both parties want this thing to fester until it's too late and we've got a permanent insurgency; but everyone else in the country just wants them dead. We have the technology to make them dead, we just don't have the political will on the part of Congress to declare war, or the Presidency to ask for it. Just crushing them would be a national catharsis, so I'm not sure if we want to take the oil or just focus on drawing down our overseas presence. That we'll have to leave to smarter people. For right now, ISIS needs to be destroyed.

Tariffs and trade: This is pretty self-explanatory. Either you think America should be a service economy doomed to eventual debt-destruction or you think we should try to avoid that clearly avoidable scenario.

Tax reform: Larry Kudlow loves it. It looks pretty awesome. I can't see how massive tax-cuts to everyone could ever be a bad thing, but who knows right?

Social issues: This one really ticks me off. You damn social libertarians are getting everything you could ever want or expect out of the Republicans and we don't get even a little bit of credit for it. I could have predicted all those "Socially liberal, fiscally conservative" mantras over the years from Democrats were a pack of lies, but I expected a little more grace out of you! We straight up elected a Planned Parenthood praising, pro-gay marriage, New York liberal and it still wasn't enough for you!

Education: Our education system is pathetic. It's based on an agricultural model, encourages mass laziness and sloth, teaches children to be ashamed of their country and it's traditions, has resulted in mass functioning-illiteracy (if you don't know phonics, you don't know how to read. It's that simple), and now has resulted in abstract, meaningless math. Basically the only thing it seems to do well is get teenage boys laid by hot, lonely teachers. Trump could literally abolish every single school in America and it would have a net-benefit on the general welfare.

As it is, he supports school choice. Which is basically a panacea for education because it allows the National government to wash their hands of the whole thing, and parents can teach their kids whatever the hell they want, however the hell they want. Pretty radical idea these days, but it worked pretty well for all of human history.

Law and Order: Not much to say on this. We need to punish the criminals and bring the jobs back. More police, not less. More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, not less. More community responsibility and engagement. Honestly, anything but "punish criminals and bring jobs back" is probably going to be empty platitudes or shameless politicking.

Welfare: We will privatize those programs. If Republicans ever get into power again, this will happen. We honestly might as well do it now. Democrats have lost this one.