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Someone want to tell me why they support Bernie?
 
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Mr.BossMan said:
Someone want to tell me why they support Bernie?
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Couple reasons. Socialized Healthcare. No Student-Debt. A more progressive approach to a lot of hot button issue socially and on the scale of corporations. Not to mention he seems like the most 'Genuine' candidate that's still successful.
 
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Mr.BossMan said:
What's wrong with Ted Cruz?
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Many, many reasons. Favoring the death penalty, opposing same-sex marriage, pro-life, opposing Obamacare, denies climate change, gun advocate, opposing the legalization of marijuana and net-nutrality, and opposing a higher minimum wage.

On a personal level, the fact that he's a downright unlikeable person. I'm also in agreement with @Arclight that he's pretty strongly religious, and pretty apparently doesn't care about the separation of church and state.
 
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Also, sorry to anyone whom might have Republican leanings, but to the rest of the world, US Republican candidates all seem batshit crazy and ass backwards and highly militaristic in many respects. Each time the US elects a Republican, the rest of the western world cringe and pray they won't be re-elected. Like Bush.

A foreigner's view of the American Parties:
Republicans = Rich white dudes with guns wanting to empower rich white dudes with guns.
Democrats = The less crazy and sometimes sane Americans.
 
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Kiro said:
Also, sorry to anyone whom might have Republican leanings, but to the rest of the world, US Republican candidates all seem batshit crazy and ass backwards and highly militaristic in many respects. Each time the US elects a Republican, the rest of the western world cringe and pray they won't be re-elected. Like Bush.

A foreigner's view of the American Parties:
Republicans = Rich white dudes with guns wanting to empower rich white dudes with guns.
Democrats = The less crazy and sometimes sane Americans.
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Just for clarification, are you an American? I thought in the Gender Equality thread you said you were, it appears however I may be wrong. Am I? Lol, sorry for the stupid question.

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Many, many reasons. Favoring the death penalty, opposing same-sex marriage, pro-life, opposing Obamacare, denies climate change, gun advocate, opposing the legalization of marijuana and net-nutrality, and opposing a higher minimum wage.

On a personal level, the fact that he's a downright unlikeable person. I'm also in agreement with @Arclight that he's pretty strongly religious, and pretty apparently doesn't care about the separation of church and state.
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Well all of those are good reasons. I actually personally disagree with many of his beliefs but I still find him the best man for the job.

Much better than Sanders IMO.
 
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Mr.BossMan said:
Well all of those are good reasons. I actually personally disagree with many of his beliefs but I still find him the best man for the job.

Much better than Sanders IMO.
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I'd much rather have someone who can fail to implement a good policy than one who can successfully implement a bad policy.
 
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Mr.BossMan said:
Good. Bad.

All a matter of perspective.
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Yeah, everything is a matter of perspective. However, coming from the perspective of a fairly far left leaning liberal, Ted Cruz has some extremely harmful policies, and while he could probably get them in place, that's the fact that scares me.
 
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Kiro said:
A foreigner's view of the American Parties:
Republicans = Rich white dudes with guns wanting to empower rich white dudes with guns.
Democrats = The less crazy and sometimes sane Americans.
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This is an over-generalization and somewhat offensive. Both parties are represented by both good and bad, intelligent and unintelligent, rich and poor Americans. The thread is about stating your "Political Compass" and not insulting others based on your ignorant over-generalizations of American Political Parties and their members.
 
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Raydo said:
This is an over-generalization and somewhat offensive. Both parties are represented by both good and bad, intelligent and unintelligent, rich and poor Americans. The thread is about stating your "Political Compass" and not insulting others for your ignorant over-generalizations
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It is a (over-)generalization, that was the point.
And I am aware that both sides have extremes on both ends.
And I did say that I'm sorry to anyone that might have Republican leanings.

I was making a point of that's how the two parties come across internationally. If someone isn't very interested in American politics and take time to study the internal intricacies of how the parties interact with one another and internally, and the rest of the (to us, frankly bizzare) American governmental structure, then that's the general view they have, because that's how the media covers them, and that's how they come across to us Non-Americans.

Take Obamacare, and the rest of Obama's government. To us foreigners, he seems to be the sanest president you've had in decades. To us, he looks like he lowered unemployment by a ton (I know he fudged the numbers by only counting genuine US citizens or whatever it was), Obamacare was portrayed to be something that was sane and actually worked (and not fucked up like I know it is), and so on and so forth. Media over here isn't interested in the details. They want us to go "Look at the crazy Americans and the not-so-crazy Americans throwing filth at one another in what they call politics".
 
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Kiro said:
It is a (over-)generalization, that was the point.
And I am aware that both sides have extremes on both ends.
And I did say that I'm sorry to anyone that might have Republican leanings.

I was making a point of that's how the two parties come across internationally. If someone isn't very interested in American politics and take time to study the internal intricacies of how the parties interact with one another and internally, and the rest of the (to us, frankly bizzare) American governmental structure, then that's the general view they have, because that's how the media covers them, and that's how they come across to us Non-Americans.

Take Obamacare, and the rest of Obama's government. To us foreigners, he seems to be the sanest president you've had in decades. To us, he looks like he lowered unemployment by a ton (I know he fudged the numbers by only counting genuine US citizens or whatever it was), Obamacare was portrayed to be something that was sane and actually worked (and not ****** up like I know it is), and so on and so forth. Media over here isn't interested in the details. They want us to go "Look at the crazy Americans and the not-so-crazy Americans throwing filth at one another in what they call politics".
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Saying sorry to a group of people before judging them from a mainly uneducated point of view doesn't make it less offensive. If I were to say: "Sorry to all you Syrian people out there, but ALL OF US Americans think all of you are terrorist." it is still highly offensive and inaccurate even though I "apologized" beforehand. Both your statement and the above hypothetical both could come from viewing the world through the sole lens of the media. They both come from a place of ignorance and are offensive.

**Edit** With that being said, I am going to go back to the "Happy Raydo" who procrastinates on posting in RPs and spends his time looking for funny gifs
 
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Outlander said:
Many, many reasons. Favoring the death penalty, opposing same-sex marriage, pro-life, opposing Obamacare, denies climate change, gun advocate, opposing the legalization of marijuana and net-nutrality, and opposing a higher minimum wage.

On a personal level, the fact that he's a downright unlikeable person. I'm also in agreement with @Arclight that he's pretty strongly religious, and pretty apparently doesn't care about the separation of church and state.
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