Republican nominee for President

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Originally Posted by MTK

Not sure how we got this far down the rabbit hole. I was just tossing out the point his speech was filled with a lot of fear mongering, which it was and plenty of news outlets are making the same point this morning.

And I refuted the fact that we aren't safer now than we were 4 or 8 years ago, sorry but the overall numbers support that. Violent crime has been on the decline since 91 and an occasional uptick does not mean we're in a death spiral. I certainly never discounted the fact violence is a major issue in some places or said that everything is fine and dandy. But again, big picture violent crime has been tending down for quite some time.

Trump painted a very dark picture last night and as usual used a very broad brush. He's tapped into people's fears very well... fear of crime, terrorism, immigrants, etc. And of course he has all the answers to fix it.

Sadly there are a lot of small minded people out there eating this up hook line and sinker.

lol at the small minded comment.

as for the rabbit hole, admittedly i wrote it at 2 am after waking up from a 1 hour sleep.

I really don't think it was a dark picture if you listened to the whole speech, I think he outlined problems that most sane people acknowledge. We have issues with violence, we have issues with foreign powers, we have issues nearly across the board.

Trump, generally would as a president, most likely set a record for most independent commissions ever formed. I tend to think they would be bipartisan/inclusive, but I may give him to much credit for that. I doubt Hillary will in her 1 hour 15 minute speech outline every single way that her administration would solve each problem, but I do think that the first step in any repair of our country's issues is outlining the candidate's concept of the problem.

I agree with Trump's basic outline of the problems our next president should focus on far more then what I expect Clinton will outline.