what kinds of movies do you like?

I'm retired with too much time on my hands. When the weather is good I'm outside but nights and rainy days seem to last forever.

I did a lot of wincing as I watched this movie. It is really extreme.

If Donald is elected I may learn to knit. [img][/img]
Oh, and we're all gonna need a large supply of popcorn.

Ego.

fear of change
fear of the outsider
fear of the non-white

Classic demagoguery 101.

http://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2016/5/4/11592958/massive-republican-failure?utm_medium=social&utm_content=ezraklein&utm_source=facebook

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The recent withdrawal of Ted Cruz and John Kasich from the Republican presidential nomination race makes Donald Trump the party's assured nominee for 2016. This represents the most colossal failure of an American political party in modern history.

I am taking the view that the primary function of a party is to select nominees for general elections. As political scientist E. E. Schattschneider said, "He who can make the nominations is the owner of the party." In performing this function, it will tend to seek nominees who represent party priorities well but are also competitive in the fall election.

This is a delicate balance, and parties will approach this differently in different years and political environments. In 2008, for example, the fundamentals looked bad for Republicans, who were saddled with a recession and an unpopular war. Democratic insiders felt freer to nominate someone a bit more liberal and outside the mainstream than they did four years earlier, when they were challenging a moderately popular wartime incumbent. The perception of who is loyal enough to the party and who is electable will vary from election to election.

This year, however, the Republicans failed on both fronts. They are nominating someone who is either ignorant of or hostile to many longstanding tenets of conservatism. His stump speeches demonstrate no real commitment to any idea other than his own strength. Even his prepared foreign policy address, to the extent it contained any policy prescriptions at all, was a self-contradictory mish-mash.

candidate?"

They are usually confined to the primaries and the general election. And they are usually carried out by proxies. Listen to the Nixon tapes if you want to hear what is said behind closed doors. Trump is an outlier for sure.