Posted on 02/28/2016 10:55:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
HANAHAN, S.C.-Twenty-six years before this low-country city was incorporated, Chad Chinners' grandfather took a risk and opened Blackwell's Building Supply Co., hoping to provide for his family with his own business after serving in World War II.
Sixty-nine years later, it remains in the same family's hands, in the same location. The dirt roads are gone, and new businesses and a bedroom community emerged, but Blackwell's is a sentinel marking the origins of a city and the continuum of a community.
Chinners stands behind the counter, greeting every customer by name as they look for nuts, bolts or complicated gadgets to finish a home-repair project. Building materials, common household items, grilling accessories, pots, pans and yard supplies are neatly stacked in different areas, giving the feel of an old general store. Customers young and old, black, white and Hispanic, male and female, linger to chat with each other or with Chinners.
"I can remember coming here when I was a kid with my grandfather," says Charles Maxey, 70. The retired postal worker has lived here most of his life, with the exception of his time in the Air Force during Vietnam.
"The thing is, while some things stay the same, like Blackwell's, politicians have missed the disruption," he says of society's changes. "People are rattled ... economic and societal turbulence is everywhere, especially in politics....
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The consequences will hit us square in the face no matter who is elected in this cycle. I think there is more upside-potential in the Trump consequences than in the Clinton consequences.
Yes. At a minimum, the economic time-bomb is ticking.
And then there’s all the players in Syria ........
You seem to be saying “We’re doomed!”
The possibility exists to make that one Europe’s problem.
And I do not see a significant downside to that approach.
I don’t know if we are doomed, but when I sum up all the problems we face versus the will and expertise to deal with those problems, I don’t see us all living happily ever after either.
Sounds like doomed to me.
Bingo. Well said. Its not about being "pro-Trump." It's about not being a damn fool.
“Bingo. Well said. Its not about being “pro-Trump.” It’s about not being a damn fool”
So here’s is his dilemma;
Once the GOP race is over and should Trump be the nominee of our GOP Party, is there wiggle room for Trump to express regret over his past idiotic statements, claim that they were just off-the-cuff remarks made during heat of the campaign, and moon-walk back to the position on immigration that he strongly held and passionately espoused just a couple of years ago: one almost identical to that of Rubio’s current one. ( Yeah..both Trump and Rubio have changed their position on immigration in the past few years)
So I am basically turning the question around. If Trump moderates in any way, especially on his hardline Cruz-like stance on immigration and move to the current Rubio model.. Would Trump supporters revolt ,play the fool ,and sit this one out?
I think it’s a bit more than the Huckabee and Santorum voters (I voted for neither). I think it has more to do with the real power of the office of the President being the bully pulpit, and Trump being better at that sort of thing than any other candidate in recent memory.
We know he talks some sh*t, we also know that there are checks and balances in government which btw, the GOPe have been assailing in an unrelenting fashion. We look at the other candidates and you know, more than anything else it’s a bit like looking at the pretty shiny thing hanging in front of an angler fish’s very toothy mouth. They are proxies for groups bent on gaming our system. On what planet is that an appealing prospect?
And the “nay-sayers” continue...............
No matter which person gets elected, you will get what you get, its which of the two are worse. It has been that way since the election process started years ago and it continues today. Both parties pick their candidate (both which are usually terrible) and turn it over to the voters to pick which one THEY think to be the best of the two worst choices. All the rhetoric will not change it.
“Conventional wisdom” has had it for some time now that Congressional approval ratings in the low teens is just hunky-dory, to which I say, really?
This election cycle is the most disjointed I have been, as far as finding inspiration, then I have been since my early 20s when I voted for Dukasis and then Perot.
When I am on my beloved FR, I skip every thread with Trump’s name in the title. I stopped listening to Rush and Beck opting for a history documentry on YouTube during the day.
Trump is a loose cannon and closet liberal, but anybody is better than the Hildebeast.
So, I will vote for him, because I refuse to sit on my arse on Election Day, like many tantrum throwing punks did in ‘12 because they didn’t like Romney. They gave us Obama.
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