[quote=@Cyclone] You want the opinion of me, a 'US dweller'? Donald Trump is honestly my favorite contender for the Republican nomination. My first choice would have been Rand Paul, but of course he was too reasonable to attain any significant following among the Conservative base and dropped out early on in the primaries. Kasich similarly hasn't gained enough momentum to earn my serious consideration. And what can you UK dwellers have on us? I'm still waiting for you lot to vote the BNP into power :lol [/quote] [quote=@Lugubrious] Trump isn't a conservative. He's only recently adopted a few conservative ideas in order to take advantage of people's anger, which has been his shtick from the beginning. Aside from being the epitome of rude and ostentatious, he's even gone so far as to say 'everything's negotiable' in regards to his position. No conservative with a grain of common sense thinks that he's a good option, but a lot of people would rather have an asshat president than a criminal or a socialist. If the US had to sacrifice pride, freedom, or the rule of law, pride ought to be first to go. His goal isn't to represent conservative ideals: it's the aggrandization of Donald Trump. But there are worse choices out there. My favorite for a long time was Ben Carson, but unfortunately he couldn't get enough momentum. Anyway, where do non-US people get off making assumptions about American politics? We let you mind your own business, don't we? Not true in the long run. When the election process begins, there's a huge amount of different possible candidates, all representing the different factions and subsets of those factions, the point being to have a great width of ideologies represented. Over time the pool dwindles until there's only one for each faction, and then the real election is held. Right now we're in the middle of the process. [/quote] [quote=@Dawnscroll] I met Trump, once, when he did a meet and greet business seminar in NY several years back. My family was one of the first in line, and I was in High School at the time. He actually seemed rather impressed that all of my siblings, myself included, wanted to play an active part in my parents business. He took one look at me "You're the one the kids pick on, aintcha?" At the time, I was actually being bullied horribly by my fellow classmates for a variety of different reasons, and I guessed it showed through my demeanor. "That's cause you aren't hungry enough. They see you have something going on, but you ain't hungry enough. They want to keep you down. They have nothing. You want that to change, you need to to want it so bad you're starving. You go back, hold your head high, and punch them in the goddamn throat in anything you do in life. Because I know when someone can be hungry." I was 15/16ish. I'm 23, going on 24, with my own business separate from my parents, a college degree under my belt, and a happy loving family to stand behind me. The people who bullied me in school are either dead, in jail, became teenage parents, or wound up with dead-end menial jobs. So to any of you, I will say this: My vote for President of the United States of America is going to go to the man who pulled me to the side and made me hunger for success with a three minute conversation. [/quote] WAIT! So you guys are the moderates? Everything makes sense now. You see, everyone else in the world was like: Well, Bernie has this in the bag. Little did we know... And Lugu, not sure if you were joking with your 'Anyway, where do non-US people get off making assumptions about American politics? We let you mind your own business, don't we?' but...*looks at endless list of US interventions in other countries, US-backed coups, US-backed dictators, US-backed *NOT* democra-* [img]http://orig04.deviantart.net/95cb/f/2015/027/8/f/_murica_cant_hear_you_over_their_freedom__by_destinysreward-d8flm4d.jpg[/img]