I’ll answer your interrogatory Anitius with an excerpt from a previous thread;
“...We are Hell and gone from Jack Kennedy’s “ask not what your country do for you, etc.”. Today’s new political jargon is “gimmee”, a dialect that really took off with LBJ’s Great Society. Unfortunately, what used to be the Republican party learned how to speak it, too. And they’ve apparently learned to speak it well as evidenced by the last budget vote. Those in power, conservative or liberal, now know they can stay in office as long as (1) those who finance their re-elections are rewarded, and (2)they can buy the needed votes with taxpayer money. And as was shown in my own state when Thad Cochran appealed to Democrat voters to vote against fellow GOP McDaniel in the primary runoff “Democrat” and “Republican” are only titles that no longer have any meaning to our leaders except when they come home and shuffle the Johns to get re-elected. Political ideology and purity of thought mean nothing to them nowadays. What matters nowadays are the enormous sums necessary for campaigning. I’ve read that a presidential campaign will cost upwards of one billion dollars. And after the election who do you think the winner will be beholden to, you or the deep pockets he’ll need for re-election in 4 years, or 2 & 6 years for members of Congress?
Yes I support Donald Trump, simply because he’s the only candidate least likely to already be in someone else’s back pocket. The fact that he’s also demonstrated his ability to be an effective administrator is lagniappe right now. Look at EVERY other wannabe out there right now, grasping and begging for donations, and tell me who else can make that same claim. Feigned ideology aside,right now I’ll take competence and the chance of a leader not already bought off over anything else being offered at the moment, because both sides have clearly demonstrated that the dream of days past when political beliefs actually mattered are, at best, punch lines for what presently infests Washington. If someone comes along with conservative bone fides AND proof he isn’t already owned by someone else, no one will be happier than me. Till then we all have to live in the real world and play the hand we’ve been dealt. Like it or not Trump is the least bad choice...”
I can’t put my reasons for supporting Donald Trump any more succinctly than that. And I see from your flag that you’re from the “Show Me” state. So show me another candidate that you think isn’t already beholden to those controlling the pursestrings and I’ll listen. Otherwise don’t be just another useful idiot, whether conservative or liberal, and vote for the one candidate who might put country above his or her master’s pocketbook..
George Soros is also not is someone’s pockets.
I don’t think I would use that as my solitary criterion to whether I trust a person would be guided by conservative principles.