I'd rather hear more about issues

[Marthe48]

The political conversation has been reduced to topics better left to Facebook. Plagiarism has ruined more than one career, but I hope that MSM moves on to issues such as jobs, the environment, equal rights, sending troops all over the world, refugees, all kinds of things to talk about.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. You aren't going to hear anything but

Bluster and lies anyway. If 10% of the stuff on their platform was ever enacted there would be a revolt of world class proportions.

[vegetarian x]

5. What's keeping us? The revolt is overdue.

Things have gone too far already. It's on TeeVee right now.

[Hortensis]

2. Here's one: HOW CAN AMERICA ALLOW THIS MAN

SO CLOSE TO AMERICA'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL? He's just been nominated, people are on their feet cheering, and the role call of the states is about to begin. This is surreal.

[Marthe48]

8. Exactly!

Thank you!

[kwolf68]

3. Like the Republican platform

Bible back in school

Obama care bad (they offer no position other than opposition)

Sell off public lands or return them to states

Coal is clean and abundant

We need to execute more people


You SURE you want to hear about the issues?

[Marthe48]

9. How to make these issues undesirable

to more people? I'm getting a little more assertive about my own opinion. Some things will never be a negative to people like religion in school, but how can anyone accept breathing in crap?

[Marthe48]

11. If more people talked about them

maybe more solutions would come to light

[Thrill]

4. Trump never talks policy

so forget that

[wiggs]

7. right. Andrew Sullivan wrote in his live-blog that to the GOP

governing is an attitude and a feeling....not policies, or ideas, or action. it's what you say and how you say it. This makes a lot of sense to me and even makes sense out of Trump....he's all bluster and emotion and no policy.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/andrew-sullivan-liveblogs-the-rnc-night-1.html

kind of reminds me of the Rove quote about reality. Reality is CREATED. You don't need facts, history, or action. Just need to be loud.

[bettyellen]

12. So true.

[PatSeg]

6. You'll have to wait until

the DNC convention if you want to hear about issues. Republicans don't talk about issues, they attack and incite.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. What issues? The GOP hayes gays, wants to outlaw porn. ISIS. Bathrooms, Jesus, Creationism.

The flag! Obama, bad. Hillary, BENGHAZI!!!


... Did I miss anything?

[bettyellen]

14. Women pregnant or in jail for preventing or terminating pregnancy?

And all POC in the back of the bus again?

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Pretty much.

Usually every 4 years you might also get some club for growth guy farting about a flat tax, but I don't even think they're going to bother with fiscal stuff this time. The Trump Voter is operating straight from the lizard brain.

[Marthe48]

16. We should even if they won't

n/t

[Hortensis]

17. Yes and we should talk about their agenda.

Many of Republicans don't believe what's in it means anything much, but the fact is those people don't control the party. The ultra-right behind the GOP is plotting to get control of SCOTUS and reinterpret our constitution out of recognition. These would be only a start to placate social and religious conservatives. The planned government structure and economic reformations are not addressed here.

The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory

... It is as though, rather than trying to reconcile Mr. Trump’s heretical views with conservative orthodoxy, the writers of the platform simply opted to go with the most extreme version of every position. Tailored to Mr. Trump’s impulsive bluster, this document lays bare just how much the G.O.P. is driven by a regressive, extremist inner core.

* Mr. Trump’s anti-Muslim phobia and fantasy wall across the Mexican border are front and center,
* along with his protectionist views, which deny long-held positions of the party.

No less alarming is a raft of planks that ideologues pushed through to banish any notion of moderation and present-day reality from the party’s credo. This majority has triumphed in securing retrograde positions that include
* making no exceptions for rape or women’s health in cases of abortion;
* requiring the Bible to be taught in public high schools;
* selling coal as a “clean” energy source (no such thing as global warming);
* demanding a return of federal lands to the states;
* insisting that legislators use religion as a guide in lawmaking;
* appointing “family values” judges;
* barring female soldiers from combat; and
* rejecting the need for stronger gun controls.

* The platform also makes homophobia and the denial of basic civil rights to gays, lesbians and transgender people a centerpiece. It repudiates same-sex marriage, despite strong support for this constitutional right in the nation at large. The party invokes “natural marriage” and states’ rights for determining which bathrooms transgender people may use, and it defends merchants who would deny service to gay customers. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/opinion/the-most-extreme-republican-platform-in-memory.html?ref=opinion

[Hortensis]

18. The one issue that fires up and unites them all is

Hillary, bizarre and contemptible as that is.

[nolabear]

13. Wait a week.

They have had nada to say about issues. at the convention.