Name:   architect - Subject:   Carlson Date:   12/25/2018 10:59:52 AM (updated 12/25/2018 11:06:39 AM)

A heart-felt Merry Christmas to you too. 

I almost agree with you on political parties but recognize we will never get rid of them.  I can invision a 3d party that could attract the voters who's opinions are somewhere in between the extremes which now unfortunately control both parties.  Such people make up a strong plurality of the nation today but they generally have no say in how the nation is run. 

I respectfully disagree on who is ''blinded by political party''.  Most voters on both sides are completely blinded by party loyalty.  In my opinion the vast majority on this forum who are ALWAYS supportive of Trump are mostly intellegent people who consider themselves faithful Republicans and are now supportive of Trump simply because he has the R after his name (take a look at many pre-primary posts...there were a lot of never Trumpers on this forum who now offer lavish praise) .  I cannot abide Trump because I do not like most of his policies (many of which he himself holds only for political expediance) and because he is the lowest form of human being morally and ethically as demostarted daily by his words and action, and by that fact his policies are guided by political expediancy rather than conviction or reason.  If Trump had run exactly the same campaign as a Democrat (a possibility which is not out of the realm reasonable) he would have received neither my vote nor the vote of one single one of his current supporters on this forum.  Sadly he would have received the vote of most of the same people who supported Hillary for no other reason than the D after his name.   I know it and so do you.

BTW:  I would have supported John Kasich or William Weld and possibly Jeb Bush had either been the Republican candidate against Clinton, and I suspect so would have all the current trump supporters on this forum, and the nation and world would have been better off!