2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bravenaks's Republican KKKonvention Live Blog Day 4- Please let it end [View all]lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I watched Trump's speech. So full of fear and divisiveness. And half-truths, flat out falsehoods, mixed with platitudes about making america great again.
No proposed policy. Just scapegoating everything on immigrants and claiming people in urban areas lack 'law and order.' Code talk. Scapegoating.
A Trump presidency would be very similar to a George W. Bush presidency or a Reagan presidency. Plenty of talk about strengthening the economy while providing huge tax cuts to the biggest corporations and wealthiest.
Lip service about law and order, silence on our disproportionate prison system, not a word about police killing people. Scapegoating of immigrants and all the people who enter our country legally. Dramatic increases in military spending; not much else done with our tax money. Nothing about inequality.
Education policy: cut public education. Allow rich people the 'freedom' to move their kids to private schools.