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To: cloudmountain
No crossroads with this election. She is just ONE person and she can't do much with our system of government.

Plus she has to deal with CONGRESS. THAT is a bigger deal because they make the laws.

I believe every word you say about Shrillary but you really are giving her too much credit. I remember WELL the exact same rhetoric when Bill Clinton was running. The anti-Clinton pundits said that the world would end.

It didn't.

Clinton was a giant SLEAZE-bucket but our world didn't end.

I wish I could have that level of faith.

However, I am a scientist, and one concept that I have come to understand very well is that systems work according to a logarithmic function. The best way to visualize this is through looking at a growth curve or dose-response curve. A tiny bit of perturbation to a system has no visible effect. But when that perturbation grows, it reaches a point where, seemingly suddenly, the perturbation and its effects have a linear relationship. Then there comes a time when the perturbation has had the maximum effect on the system, such that adding more does not make much of a difference.

Bill Clinton did a lot of damage, but the system is huge; thus, the damage was mostly hidden during his term. The housing/mortgage crisis that erupted in the latter part of Bush 43's presidency was the direct result of Bill Clinton's policies. The system was able to absorb a small number of bad mortgages. But the policy of coercing banks to make these bad loans continued over several years steadily increased the number of bad loans to the point where the system broke under the pressure. We are still dealing with that. Add to that the other pressures the left puts on our system--the race wars that Obama has tirelessly promoted, the stress on the healthcare system, the suppression of education in schools and even universities, the massive increase of national debt--there are too many stressors in the system, and they are growing. Hillary will double down on the destructive policies of Bill and Obama--that is the entire point of her campaign. Thus, she will accelerate the effects of those stressors. To avoid system breakdown, those stressors have to be negated ASAP. Trump seems to understand the danger, and is (I think) the only person who is willing to try to fix the problems before they reach critical levels.

Argentina did not collapse overnight when it went full socialist. It took years. The US, being larger, has more built-in resilience, but it is reaching the breaking point.

Now, back to Mongolia and their vote for communists when they had their first election. You need to try to understand that from their point of view, free from American bias. Communism, to them, represents equality, full employment, and--yes--freedom, while democracy represents cronyism, corruption and high unemployment. They do not have a republican option. Many Mongolians do not like cronyism or corruption any more than conservative Americans. And when they vote for Communists, they are not voting for a communist dictator-they are voting for communists to sit in a parliament, who will--regardless of their party affiliation--support the efforts of international companies (Toyota, Coca-Cola, Pizza Hut, Louis Vuitton, etc.) to set up shop in Mongolia because that creates jobs, which is completely compatible with the view that (some) Mongolians have of communism. The important point is that Communism in Mongolia has to be understood in context--it is NOT the American interpretation of Communism.

When I first arrived in Mongolia, my guide asked about the election, and who I support. I told her that I am voting for Trump, because he is a businessman and I think that is good for America. In later conversations, we talked about corruption, and I told her that Hillary is very corrupt but that the people voting for her do not care. She brought up the point that she heard that Trump cannot be corrupted, and I pointed out that Trump is so rich that it is impossible to offer him something he does not already have.

22 posted on 10/18/2016 4:09:32 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

In accounting, you look ahead, and unfortunately, the Repeal of Glass-Steagal was not a good move, regardless of how great the economy was at time.


23 posted on 10/18/2016 4:20:09 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: exDemMom
You DON'T know corruption if you think THIS president is corrupt. The third world, everywhere but the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe, is corruption nationalized. Any president of ours, Democrat or GOP, looks like the saint of the day in comparison.

Countries like Mongolia undoubtedly think that we are NAIVE, rich but naive. It's isn't naiveté at all.
It's the Judaic/Christian ethic.
Christians believe in education of ALL, not a privileged few.
Education is the source of our wealth.
We also have the gift of LARGE open spaces for farms so WE can feed ourselves. Many nations cannot.
We have LARGE oceans between us and the rest of the world, minus Mexico and Canada. That gives us the "room" to be independent of most of the planet, a good thing.
We truly are blessed by our Maker to live HERE.
As women we are truly blessed to live HERE and NOW.

I count my many blessings EVERY, SINGLE day. I attend Mass every day (except Saturdays) to show my gratitude to our good Lord.

Lol. Sorry, I was ON A ROLL! Thanks for reading.
FREEgards.

26 posted on 10/18/2016 1:44:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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