It's the constant 24/7 brainwashing from the media outlets always trying to keep the right/left paradigm alive. Once you come to realize that the whole "political system" is a complete charade it just gets more and more outlandish as time goes on. When I see people like the one that you quoted it becomes apparent that we are quickly closing in on the age of idiocracy.

Yeah I kind of see this polarization in people like you and I who obviously see the charade for what it is

Yes I completely agree. That is the positive side of it. Part of the population continues to fall for the increasingly retarded (for lack of a better word) political charade, but on the same note the numbers of people like us are increasing too (dramaticy though they try to marginalize that fact). The two sides will continue to become more and more polarized until something gives.

It is more incredible that this "phenomena" is attracting the Dems, independents, and people who never voted, while pushing out REAL conservatives, what used to be Republicans, and Amazingly turned the GOP into an actual "racist" party. Almost like a DEMOCRAT has infiltrated the party. But who was supporting Democrats a few years ago?

Who was considering running as a Republican 4 yrs ago but Romney was chosen to fuck it up?

Who has donated to Clinton regularly and other New York Liberals to participate in the very Crooked Crony Capitalism Practice (see what I did there?) we all hate?

Donald Drumph, friend of pedophile Epstein, Clintons, and other shady characters are now the friggan hope for our country?

But fuck Cruz right? He looks like a drawing of the zodiac killer. Unbelievably stupid people.

Really? Cruz is your answer to this problem?

He was the best step I saw. Now I'm waiting for my ballot to generate candidates but I'm probably "voting for Hillary" by voting for Darrel Castle. Never Trump because unlike Drumph, I actually don't give a fuck. I will continue to set the example, y'all can follow or bitch in a FEMA camp.

I dunno, I agree with that statement. The elite shit their pants this primary when Trump won. He's not a puppet of the elite. Perhaps he may be co-opted in the future. And I don't think it had anything to do with the righteousness of Republicans over Dems. But certainly the Dem primary was rigged and clearly the Republican wasn't

I also don't think trump winning was the establishment plan. Originally, the establishment was more concerned with making sure rand Paul's campaign never got a foothold and topics of discussion were limited to the typical Republican wedge issues.

If the establishment plan was for trump to win, there would be much more party unity right now. Old guard gop assholes like Mitch McConnell would be supporting him in a believable manner.

I think that Trump is preferable for TPTB but I think that they may have been caught off guard by how well he's actually doing and didn't intend for him to actually seem (as) competitive with Hillary.

Well, I don't think that's correct, but who knows. It's a decent conspiracy theory. Have any evidence beyond their previous ties?

There's this too:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/250356-report-bill-clinton-called-trump-ahead-of-campaign

That's suspicious

Whomever is running things placed two powerful pieces on the board. One on the red side, the other on the blue side. Ideally, the blue piece would be victorious, but in case past transgressions come to light and the blue side falters, the red side is still in the game.

The President of the United States of America is little more than a game piece there for show and comfort.

The real power hides behind the scenes, far from scrutiny, far from discovery, far from punishment.

Corporations rule all, and those who rule the corporations rule you. It's so painfully simple it hurts.

This election is literally like watching some shitty reality tv not unlike honey boo boo or whatever other trash is on tv these days.

The best part about it all?

We sit here on the Internet and argue about whether or not ancient aliens created our civilization as we know it. We fight about whether or not the world is round. We fight about whether or not Trump is a Hillary player. We fight about whether or not vaccines are helpful or harmful. We fight about all of these details and much much much much more online.

No one has the balls to do anything about it (including me - what is there to even do?), and so we continue to live in this stupid farce of a world while we literally send children (if you think an 18 year old boy is not a child, you're a fool) to kill other people's children just so we can have bigger better TV's and more channels with nothing to actually watch. We buy cheap shitty things from countries that literally use child slave labor to put our garbage together.

We've been convinced that life is a certain way, and we refuse to realize that we are all part of a system that is bigger and more amazing than anything we can ever imagine. We are a part of a universe that is a part of a system that is literally incomprehensible.

The game is rigged, but worse? The game is over. You can't do a damn thing about it. We're fucked.

Here's the most important part about what you said:

This is all a cycle. The human cycle. Much like all the cells in my body make up the specific individual, "me," the humans on this planet make up the specific individual "Earth" (sort of).

We're so sure that we're all special snowflakes that we don't realize that our social conformity or rejection is all a part of what it is to be a human being. Society is itself an organism of sorts. We always act this way. We think things are different, but little ever actually changes.

The Republican Party and its leading lights did everything humanly possible to sabotage Trump's campaign, including countless dirty tricks. They failed, because the people want Trump.

Show him this article about Trump's connections:

http://philosophyofmetrics.com/how-rothschild-inc-saved-donald-trump-freepom/

The whole thing is controlled, both sides, but a lot of Trump supporters have fallen for the narrative pushed by some of the "alt-media" like Jones and Infowars that he is actually fighting the establishment.

ron paul?

twas obviously rigged against him. so yeah its a dumb thought

I felt that way too. I think they underestimated Trump and failed to take enough vote rigging measures. They were planning to eliminate him early via media character assassination and slander. Bush was gonna float on his massive war chest while they played Carson as the Cain and Cruz as the Maverick. Rubio was to be a dark horse if needed. They got complacent.

The republican field was made as big as possible to ensure the chosen ones could sit aloof while the others battled it out. The democrat field was made as small as possible because everyone knew Hillary would have a difficult time. They knew election fraud was crucial for Hillary but thought they had the Republicans in the bag.

I watch the polls pretty closely for fraud, and there was a lot on the Dem side, I can tell you Hillary did not win legitimately. Republican side was within the margin of error but never in favor of Trump.

What this told me (and I was very surprised) was that voting still did matter. If you can overwhelm them with sheer turnout, they can't influence the results without being obvious.

It makes sense, they control the candidate selection and have been extremely good at rigging in the past. They don't really care who gets to the general, because they know they could work with them. Once they get the two, they have a little talk and decide who's gonna get the extra votes. The last two elections were almost flawless in execution.

They couldn't deny Trump from running because he has been such a big donor, but they sure were going to eliminate him from the field.

As have I. I have the same concerns, but I think it's more likely that TPTB would threaten his family rather than try to buy him out. I don't think Trump can be bought very easily.

My thought is we needed an independently wealthy, stubborn, and pit bull of a man to beat the system using the system. Everyone else was virtually gaurunteed to sell out or give in.

All I have is hope at this point. Trump says everything I want him to say, and he doesn't need any money. I'm thinking he's more concerned about his children living in a good country than anything else. If he's a faker, well we've been fucked this entire time. Whatever the powers are/where planning for the next presidency is going to be bad, the culmination of decades. Every day I hope Trump means what he says and he isn't assassinated.

Yes, I know we have.

My point is he has the money. He's not some Rubio from Florida. He's also not a politician. He's been using politicians to get what he needs for years, he knows exactly how they operate.

I dispute him being a faker in general, I'm sure he manipulates people to get what he wants in deals, but he's certainly not a Rubio, Cruz, or Clinton faker. If you have a specific example I'd like to hear it, for my own enlightenment.

I'm not being naive. I have evaluated all the angles.

All you're saying is the system is rigged, to which I agree with. All I'm saying is the system tried to and is still trying to eliminate Trump. If Trump doesn't have Americas interests first, well we've always been fucked. It appears that he does, however, so you know, fuck it, I'm hoping he will stop this bullshit once and for all.

Sigh. Fine, technically you're right, I'm sure I haven't evaluated all the angles. But the ones you are proposing I have evaluated. I've researched the man a great deal. Without any evidence to the contrary, I have to believe he means what he says when he talks about the U.S.

Which will do nothing. I give you these options:

1) Abstain from voting

2) Vote for the establishment candidate

3) Vote third party

4) Vote for the guy who seems to be hated by the establishments.

The first three are garunteed to fail. There is absolutely no chance to change anything for the good if options 1, 2, or 3 are picked.

Option 4 however, has a chance of success. I consider it a last second Hail Mary.

Yes, I know there will be voter fraud. Massive voter fraud, the likes of which we've never seen. They already pushed the envelope to the edge with the Dem primaries. Not only noticeable, but extremely noticeable. With Trump running in the general, they will pull out all stops to destroy him.

Okay, you say he won the primary because it was rigged in his favor? That is laughable on many levels. Give me just one example that you think illustrates it was rigged in his favor, other than "he won, must be rigged in his favor"

Have you seen anything he's said about Hillary? You think that anyone would let him do real damage to her if she was supposed to win? No, it would look like Bernie.

Anyone who takes the time to actually learn about the man ends up liking him. People get on the media and flat out lie and slander his name. The media has bullshit articles that don't hold up to scrutiny. The lie that people hate him is just a lie. IGNORANT people who haven't spent 30 minutes of research to justify their hate, hate him.

I thought he was a joke. Then I researched him. He has done amazing and generous things his entire life. He has never uttered a racist word. What we see in the media is flat out lies.

Edit: And by the way, I've never seen so many people in real life actually tell me they supported a candidate as much as Trump.

Well see that's something I accept. I don't agree with the reasoning, but I get where you're coming from. I would say however not to let your first reaction to someone stop you from being objective.

He's most certainly a politician, he's running for the highest elected office in the world. He sells people bullshit rhetoric that they lap up; same as it ever was.

Look at how people like Gingrich and Christie and now his VP pick Pence have coalesced around him. These people are part of the GOP establishment. Pence was a hard line supporter of everything about the Iraq war. He is a big supporter of TPP. The list goes on and on.

It's a scam and it's the biggest scam going in politics right now because the people supporting him are the new Obamabots of '08. "Make America Great Again" is the new "Hope and Change".

The people running the show knew they needed an "anti-establishment" candidate this year to funnel all the opposition into, hence Trump.

On top of all of that, he's laid out some incredibly authoritarian policy during the primaries. Internet censorship, "rebuilding" the military, media censorship, bombing the families of terrorists, etc.

I agree with the OP, they've set him up to make Hillary look palatable. An election against Trump is truly one of the only ways she could win.

Dude, look up the definition of politician. If you can't think critically, why do you expect anyone to listen to what you say? You come out the gate with something that is obviously not true.

You should take your own advice.

What public office has he held? In what capacity is he a politician?

You'll note, he does not hold an office yet. He is running to be President, but he is not currently a politician.

Why is it so hard for you to understand the definition?

Running for political office is not practising politics. Gotcha. It's some other thing. Like jogging.

Typical whiny lefty and their pseudo-intellectual ramblings.

Whatever you need to sleep at night.

I think that Trump is preferable for TPTB but I think that they may have been caught off guard by how well he's actually doing and didn't intend for him to actually seem (as) competitive with Hillary.

I also don't think trump winning was the establishment plan. Originally, the establishment was more concerned with making sure rand Paul's campaign never got a foothold and topics of discussion were limited to the typical Republican wedge issues.

If the establishment plan was for trump to win, there would be much more party unity right now. Old guard gop assholes like Mitch McConnell would be supporting him in a believable manner.