Bernie Sanders Is Building An Army To Stop Trumpcare Dead In Its Tracks In The Senate. UPVOTE IF YOU WANT BERNIE TO KNOW WE SUPPORT HIM AND WANT TO SEE THIS STOPPED.

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It's called accelerationism. When government goes horribly wrong, people pay attention. When a liberal like Obama is in power, people tend to overlook problems that occur under his rule. For example, he deported more immigrants that George Bush, yet we didn't hear much of a peep from the typical pro-immigrant organizations.

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The government has been going horribly wrong for about half the country for a long time. Most people here are experiencing the other end of the stick right about now.

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Trust me, I definitely did. Between that and the extrajudicial drone killings, there were plenty of protests from farther left. Of course these against Trump absolutely dwarf them.

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On the flip side, us redcaps (that's what you call us Deplorables here? Simple, yet classy!) were accelerated into voting Trump because we believed President Obama was pushing "horribly wrong" to previously unseen extremes that we believed Secretary Clinton would irrevocably worsen.

Thanks for your perspective! Our motivating fears are more similar than we usually realize.

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Hey, olive branch, I want to hear your perspective on this: do you feel like Trump's policies (or alternatively the policies you support) have historical backing, that they feel like an obvious direction for America to go considering past trends and times?

One reason I identify so strongly with liberal policies is because I feel like they're a logical next step for America. Between the New Deal/Great Society periods and their rhetoric and policy, even just considering that the American Dream means a better future for our children than we have, I could point to a hundred successes our country has had and where they point us to go, how they've made my life almost inconceivably better than my ancestors' and how they can benefit our country in the future even more...

As I've actually gotten to spread my wings and get out into the world, right on the verge of settling down with the love of my life, more of my skin has gotten into the game, and I know I can personally benefit tremendously from liberal policies even vis a vis traditional conservative politics, let alone Trumpian bastardizations of them, but even so, my views aren't decided by that. They're decided by love of my fellow Americans, what can push our country forward as a whole, the same way I felt even before my (admittedly limited) real world experience. They're influenced by the words and views of past American heroes I feel we should all strive to emulate.

It's taken a long time to crystallize this all into words, and thinking about it has made me wonder what counterpart there is on the other side. Where does your political basis come from?

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Do you still support him?

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Yea, look at all the kooks in literally every country you could possibly want to be born in who have universal healthcare.