Originally posted by Robtard
And what does Trump represent exactly? Because he's a Republican, or what you just called "bad". Just far more incompetent and more shameless in the long standing Republican take-from-the-poor-to-feed-the-rich policy platform.Elon (if he does it) starting a serious 3rd party isn't anything new either. Perot ran 3rd party and got 19% of the popular vote, that was seen as serious to both the Democrats and Republicans.
Originally posted by darthgoober
I'm still in favor of what Trump represents. He's a disruption to a system everyone has known for decades was broken but was content to cross their fingers and hope everyone suddenly decides to stop acting like an *******. He's been a wake up call in a lot of repects. He still does all kinds of stuff I disagree with, but the other politicians did too. It's just that they supported each other's efforts on the downlow by acknowledging only one other option. Trump has brought the idea of telling entrenched politicians to go to Hell in regards to the "safe" talking points they prefer go drone on endlessly about, and I do think that's a good thing. If there's a problem, it's existed for a long time, this way there's finally a conversation being had about it. Have you ever seen that movie Brewsters Millions? Trump is my "None of the Above" vote.
Perot wasn't Elon, but even after his showing both Dems and Rep shifted on a couple of issues. That's what they do when lots of 3rd party energy starts building in the populace to make people feel like the parties are trying to move in a better direction. What's more, there's a good chance Elon won't run himself because no one in congress will actually change the law about non natural citizens running for President when they know it'd be to support Elon running in a 3rd party. That means he'll chose someone else to run, and will likely keep the party going just to spite folks even beyond the first election.