It seemed an eminently sensible policy and it's sad that it got watered down so much. This is why I think most conservative voters, were they to live in the USA, would normally vote democrat. Hillary aside.

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a president can give the order to launch. trump likes to strike back at people for stupid things. he doesn't think things through. he doesn't understand issues and nuance. he said he'll destroy ISIS, etc. he'll be tough with n korea, etc. always implying force or outwardly stating it.

i'm not saying he would start a nuclear war and that it's likely. i don't trust him around a bottle rocket, though, let alone real weapons.

The problem with Obamacare is that it’s trying to impose controls on a commercial enterprise where profit, not “the public good”, is the overriding driver. Why we still do that for healthcare, when we don’t do it for other types of insurance (flood insurance on my home is provided by a government-underwritten program, for example) makes no sense. Premiums are rising at alarming rates because insurers are being forced to pay claims that they would have previously avoided, and they pass this cost, along with significant corporate overhead and advertising expenses, on to the insured.

For the over-65s, health insurance is free under MediCare. It’s a wildly popular program with republicans and democrats alike. It’s also “single-payer”, which is a demon of the right and amazing to me how this misunderstanding persists. It runs at an overhead of about 3%, compared to an insurance company whose overhead is about 30%. We spent $3 trillion on healthcare in 2015, so insurance companies are adding perhaps $1 trillion to the overall cost. That’s insane.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

This appears to be the case (he's at war with "establishment" Republicans on Twitter this morning), but there will be longer-term consequences beyond the election.

He has de-legitimised Clinton (the way he tried to de-legitimise Obama), which will serve to further divide the country. He has normalised racism, misogyny and, now, even sexual abuse which has emboldened the crazies to come out into the open. Racially-motivated violence is on the rise over here since Trump's run began, just like it did in the UK folowing the demonising of "foreigners" by the Brexit campaign.

He will leave the country in worse shape than it was before he started his political tilt, and it will take a while to get back to the mostly effed up state we had before he got going.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Plain wrong. Even if you have private medical cover over here they don't take the piss on a US level of things.

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f***ing poxy ads.

Edited by Stuk (11 Oct 2016 8.57pm)

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