So it's already a lesser of two evils - freedom vs what is supposed to be a mild compromise. But I'll play.
I vote for republicans as the least worst. There are a few I respect, but I think at this stage of the game unless you come from the outside as Trump did, by the time you rise to anything above state legislatures you have promised away all your action in order to have been able to run a campaign that could get you there. NOT promised to the people who elect you, but those who can fund you. There are a few who I think have navigated that with the least damage to their character and even if they have any character left, the freedom to follow their own character.
Government is dangerous to begin with -> ANY government of man.
So I don't look at them as leaders. I look at them primarily as out-of-control servants who don't understand that they should look at themselves as janitors with a big set of keys, rather than governors of men. Part of being that janitor MAY mean having to whoop some ass and use force on occasion, but that's not the primary role.
The Republicans as a group I find rather disgusting. Trump is not a Republican. He's a Trump who loves freedom and opportunity and I think possesses the rare gift of actually loving his fellow man.
Hence, though many would laugh at this, he's a successfully guy who humbly, yes humbly, and happily, seeks, as a healthy man would at the end of a successful life, serves his fellow man the way a grape vine serves grapes. creating grapes is just what a healthy grave vine does. It doesn't think itself noble or sacrificing or high or low. It's a grape vine, and so ... it 'grapes.'
SUMMARY: The Republicans are highly flawed in character and major sinners. But the different between the Republicans and the Democrats is that with the democrats, sin is a feature and not a flaw. They see it as a strategy - sin is success in government. With the Republicans, it's barely true, but as a group, they aren't totally on the side of sin. (By sin I mean - governing for personal benefit, survival, and out of a lack of sincere natural love for their fellow countrymen.
Lesser of two evils, but one is an infection, the other is arsenic. I'll take the infection so long as it's the least worst I can get.
Trump is neither. You could say Trump is 'before government', outside it, not of it. He understands that it's a necessary evil that's also the most likely thing that will destroy its own people. His job has been to tear down the monster. Governments of men always stagnate into swamps ... that's human nature, not 'this' or 'that' government's nature. Ours is the only government founded on the concept that government is evil, but necessary.
If most in the country understood that ONE single concept (that one weird trick!) ... then things wouldn't be perfect (because we are the men we are, not the men we would choose to be - original sin), but the 'progressives' would get the best progress man is capable of, and the freedom lovers ... the conservatives ... would get their freedom.
Apologies in arrears, not going to go back to edit. Hopefully not too many typos, autocorrects and rats nest sentences.
Great analogy, and not one to laugh at.
Nope, GREAT post.