I can't remember a worse time in American presidential politics than the present. The Republican party has evolved into a freak show. The way that all of their candidates speak about the inequality of income is so harsh that it is obvious that they don't believe that it is an issue with their voters - and maybe it is not - but they need more than 1% of the population to win an election. Who wants to vote for raising the age of retirement?
Climate change is not even mentioned, this just after Obama's speech on it just a couple of days ago. Even Obama is a decade late to that party, but it is not even a discussion point for a single republican candidate. Instead we have to listen to building bigger walls around the country to protect us from Mexico, really?
National security - we have run out of countries to fight, yet you here quotes like "the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things" from Mike Huckabee, and from Ted Cruz, "we will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words: radical, Islamic, terrorism." Maybe Ted should read the news, looks like we crushed a bunch of radical terrorist over the last seven years with our drone program.
What is the saddest point is that we should be having a hard time choosing between some of the best and most qualified candidates ever - not some weird, disconnected, and bought stuffed suits. Maybe it was this bad 20, 30, 50 years ago - but I don't remember it being so void of qualified candidates addressing current and relevant issues.
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