[quote=@Lugubrious]
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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?
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Of course he isn't a real conservative; he funded Hillary Clinton's last bid and openly said in the past that he favored the Democratic Party.

You have to realize that the only true 'conservatives' these days are the lunatics in the Tea Party that are so extremist by comparison to anybody else that they have no chance of winning the independent and/or moderate voters (read: the vast majority of America). What 'true conservative' did we even have to choose from? Jeb Bush's only reason to be taken seriously was that his father was a mediocre president and his brother was a contender for our [i]worst[/i] president, so the celebrity status trickled down. Ben Carson had no political experience as well as those strange theories about the pyramids being built by Jospeph to store grain and other assorted bullshit.

These days the conservative establishment is simply the opposition party: aside from that failed attempt at the Keystone Pipeline, what positive change have the Republicans been able to get out for us in the past 10 years? The past 20? See, all they do is fight as hard as they can to reject anything that the Democrats try to push forward.

Contrast that to the Democratic party, which I liken to some abominable union of socialists (or outright Communists in some cases), male-hating feminists, Muslim fundamentalists, stoners who just want marijuana legalized, pro-immigration people who want us to invite in hordes of foreigners, and corporate interest groups that want crap like the TPP that will screw us all over.

I'm very liberal on most topics related to economics yet socially conservative, so I really loathe how only two parties manage to retain such a chokehold on the entire country. The total polarization means that I'm inevitably going to hate both candidates in every election; it's just a matter of which one I find less distasteful.

...and that's my two cents. No more political rants from me on the Internet for another year or two :lol