What you feel about new America under Trump:-) ?

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How is government going bankrupt funding that when immigrants have applied for jobs and are working?

And how can you compare a few million immigrant kids to the many millions who would pass pricey private school tuition onto the government? And what do you plan to do with all the public schools which are already there taking money from the gov. to operate? Why can't you make a few that already exist into charter schools? Why not get corporations to pour money into the public schools like they do charters? In my state, we have expensive private schools that linger a few years, absorb money from the government, then close their doors and disappear. It just happened with rip off Heritage College a couple days ago. Why would you support that kind of waste?

I was never in the Democrats' fold, Jacoby. They are the enemy. I have worked on campaigns against them and will do so again.

I'm in essence asking should the parents I described have to send their kids I described to the school where most kids are dealing drugs by 7th or 8th grade and dropping out by 9th or younger because they don't have money for a private school?

It would be very curious to see how things go and what else happens. Trump has been toning things down so will he make a good president and listen to people after all? I have noticed he no longer wants to get rid of all Muslims and get rid of gay marriages. I just hope he is being sincere and not putting on an act to try and shut people up.

I am expecting 20+ million people will be summarily stripped of their health care.

It's their neighborhood, their community. If all the "good" people are always running and hiding from all the "bad" people nothing gets better.
If you have a school where drugs and crime are controlling everything then it should be shut down. That's what I think. It's beyond hope. Don't keep pouring money into a school like that and pay for expensive tuition at the same time. Or better yet, find the kids causing the problems and deal with them. You can't let the ones causing problems call the shots. That's ridiculous.
If the parents really want expensive schools for their kids, they should figure out how to pay for it. If the government is going to fund it, set up a voluntary tax of some kind and work with the money from that but don't expect everyone to pay higher taxes to fund private schools along with the public ones. It's a government program that will get out of control fast like social security. We should be wary of such boondoggles considering where we are now.

It does happen or it should happen?

I ask because if that family should keep their kids in the crime-ridden school, unless the school shuts down, their kids are probably going to end up in a very different situation than they'd want them to. I'm not so sure people in that situation should have to suffer for unfulfilled shoulds.

He seems to be walking back some of his more worrying positions. He now says he's going to keep some of the better aspects of Obamacare, for example. Also, his first-100-days agenda is mostly about creating jobs and funding infrastructure work - two things that Republicans and Democrats can both support. Trump seems to be a guy who talks first and thinks later, and now (hopefully) he's starting to think.

keeping the lower-income subsidies is the most important part and he has not mentioned anything along those lines.

Profoundly nervous.

Donald Trump is the least qualified presidential candidate in the history of this country.(Every past president has served their country in a major public office) He also came in on a populist campaign with aggressive violations of basic social norms, obvious character defects, and a solid history of praising autocratic decisions. I don't think any of what I said can be honestly denied either, and all of these are far beyond what has been acceptable in past presidential elections.

We can talk about the typical horse-race stuff, such as whether Trump will oppose abortion, or get an infrastructure bill, etc, but the bigger fear is if this is all not applicable. The US faces deeper problems.

1) Can Donald Trump conduct a sane foreign policy? I assume we all watched the campaign unfold, and the various ridiculous conflicts Donald Trump forced himself into, picking fights with Gold Star families and POWs. I have no reason to think that this was a purely calculated strategy, and so if this man has the military might of the US, will he use it correctly? If this man has nukes, will he use them correctly? His temperament seems profoundly off, and even relatively moderate/non-left-wing pundits gave some dire warnings on this. So, Megan McArdle, long-time libertarian brought up the concern on the day of the election that Donald Trump posed a threat on nuclear weaponry:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-06/trump-is-disqualified-for-his-interest-in-using-nuclear-weapons

"Perhaps even under President Trump, the risk of a nuclear exchange is very small. But the possibility of a nuclear exchange is so devastating that even a tiny probability, multiplied by the scale of the destruction, dwarfs any negative outcome on any other issue."

And given that this was an entire sub-plot of the 2016 presidential race, with many of the flare-ups coming from sources like the Joe Scarborough show, and leaks from advisors, there is a reason for legitimate concern.

2) Will Donald Trump actually handle the economy well? So, Donald Trump's campaign partly rested on very large tariffs. Tariffs of the size he proposes would cause major trade-wars with other major economies, such as China. Nobody really wins in a trade-war though. Donald Trump also talked very loosely about renegotiating the federal debt. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/donald-trump-brings-back-the-default-talk/488270/ Even just his tax plan explodes the federal budget to a rather obscene degree: http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-donald-trump-tax-reform-plan-september-2016 Which isn't that great, since we're probably past the point where a Keynesian stimulus is a good idea.

The very big problem is that I don't think he knows what he is doing. He can't really promise us growth because the job of politicians is largely to set up an environment conducive for entrepreneurs and businesses to grow the economy, but he really can mess us up very badly.

3) Will a Donald Trump presidency favor the long-term health of the republic? I really don't think so. One of Donald Trump's repeated concerns is that we need to "open up libel laws": http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/donald-trump-libel-laws-219866. We really don't. The first amendment is fairly satisfactory, and an open and unjustified campaign to attack it is worrisome. Even many of the other concerns expressed seem to have little to no grounding in reality. Does Donald Trump have the right temperament to use the power of the presidency for good? Well... throughout the campaign, he focused on attacking perceived enemies. Donald is inheriting a lot of power for good or ill, and I don't think he's that focused on good. Even further, the US has been undergoing a lengthy period of time of polarization: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/09/polarization-is-getting-worse-in-every-part-of-politics/

Donald Trump, with his problems and tendencies, is unlikely to be a uniter, and honestly, I'm getting the impression that the Republican intellectuals would rather have victory than scruples. That's not a very good sign, because if he also has personality problems and authoritarian tendencies, this is a fairly bad combination given that this same party also controls all 3 branches of government.(Although, I think the supreme court is likely mostly sufficiently isolated from political pressure to refrain from the line of worry I bring forward)

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I hope nothing I've said comes off as crazy talk, or even the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist, but there is no secret plot I'm putting forward. And when you get warning messages from wonks and reporters who have spent the better part of the decade building their credibility as sober analysts, it starts getting jarring. So, Andrew Sullivan basically declared the Trump presidency the end of the Republic: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/andrew-sullivan-president-trump-and-the-end-of-the-republic.html. Eliezer Yudkowski, who has his own history of occasionally being off but just the same, is talking about whether he needs a bitcoin brain wallet and is advocating that people come up with plans to leave the country: https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10154766799984228 Will Wilkinson, a former Cato analyst and current VP of policy for the Niskanen Center, passed along a document on the signs of democratic erosion: https://www.facebook.com/wwilkinson/posts/10157699854900117?pnref=story The thing that causes me anxiety is that aside from news stories, most of the figures I've referenced have made serious efforts to build a reputation for sanity over the course of the last 10 years, and whom I've watched for that time period.

(Many apologies for the link-spam and supreme length)

tl;dr I think Trump is scary, guys. I read things too!

All I can say is that these have been his positions the whole time despite media characterizations, Trump is not an ideologue. I think the more the other side works with and shows respect to Trump the better it will be for them, obstructionism and temper tantrums will have the opposite desired effect.

I get the impression from his words that he will use newly enhanced libel laws to silence those who disagree with him. this is how it [fascism] starts, with small steps. and obstructionism is a defense against getting clobbered with malice aforethought. it was good enough for the hypocritical GOP over the last 8 years, now it is good enough for the remnants of the democrats.

I wonders does Electors can elect other candidate (namely Hillary Clinton) than won the general election, i Heard that Hillary really support to pressure electors from US Elector College to vote on her instead Trump?

unfortunately bro, that is just a fairy tale... 2 Maryland electors don't make for a nationwide movement. but I can still dream, they can't take that away from me...

Charter Schools are not the same as private school, it is a school that is publicly funded but privately ran. With school the tax money follows the student, most school districts in the US spend more per pupil than your typical private school yearly tuition. Funding for schools should follow the child, parents should have ultimate choice on where to send their child to school. I personally believe that this should include private schools as well as charter, cut out the middlemen and empower parents to make their own decisions with the education money that would be allocated to their child. School choice is one of most important things we can do to level the playing field as to how it effects the achievement gap and leveling the playing field, one size fits all education does not work and if you're in a poor urban inner city then that size is more akin institutionalization or day care than real education. You can't just 'fix' things either, part of the problem with public schools is union politics from selfish teachers who stand in the way of almost all reform. Competition always makes things better, these schools are not owed money that is allocated for a child they are not educating.


Democrats can try obstructionism but they will be crushed and will get a more conservative agenda because of it, remember who controls all branches of government and remember that in 2018 the Democrats are likely going to get slaughtered in the senate possibly giving the GOP a filibuster proof majority(not that filibusters are that much of an obstacle anymore with how previous Dem majority neutered them) If people work with Trump then he might be able to pursue some of his more moderate agenda without having to wrangle the entire GOP caucus, there's zero reason for Democrats to oppose Trump's infrastructure investments as it goes beyond even what their nominee and especially sitting president have spent/proposed on the matter. If they don't involve themselves with healthcare then you will likely see a plan more crafted by Paul Ryan, is that what you want?

If Democrats won't work with Trump on anything then there is no reason to take their considerations on anything, smash everything thru and I think it will be very easy to target vulnerable Democrats in these conservative states who will be desperate to moderate themselves ahead of midterm elections. There are some sitting Democratic senators that could be targeted to switch parties, mostly notably Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Democrats are going to have a very hard time coming back since some are going to want to go further left while others from more conservative states will want to moderate, divide and conquer will be an easy strategy. You should be begging your Democratic representatives to work with Trump.

so I should beg my democratic congressmen and senators to go GOP and further disenfranchise me, eh?