Lots of soul searching ahead for the Democrats and the left
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In the wake of the Democratic Debates, the question that has been on everyone's mind is: Is there a better way to run the country than Donald Trump? And is there any better way than the one we ve ve veered toward in the past?
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for the past few years now we've been told by Democrats by the media by academics by pretty
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much anybody out there in polite society that Donald Trump is the worst thing ever he's got
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to go all his decisions are awful there's got to be a better way and then we learn these past few
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days after watching the two installments of the Democratic debates that well is there a better
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way do you have any ideas and what on earth are you proposing you know it was really something
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to see these what 20 candidates I guess there were 24 of them only 20 of them made the cut
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they get up there and they are selling their vision for America for why they should be the
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Democratic presidential nominee why they should be the next president the next leader of the free
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world and you would think because I'm sure all these people have had the past few years to be
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involved in their Trump derangement syndrome to think about how terrible and awful Donald Trump
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was you would think they would have a pretty good argument as to why they should be president
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what should be done what needs to happen next to save America from whatever awful they say has
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befallen it since Trump has become president did we actually see that though I mean wow it was
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something for those of us who suffered through watching these debates to watch this group of people
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who well to give it a Canadian context I mean they made the NDP look pretty centrist perhaps even
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right-wing in some respects you know there was a time when the Democratic Party in the United States
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used to be considered a little bit right to Canada's Liberal Party I mean I have some friends
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some far-left friends in the United States who they say they would never vote for Hillary Clinton
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because she's too right-wing that was the view people had a decade ago when she was first
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challenging Barack Obama that was then this is now the stuff we saw in that debate stage the stuff
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they're talking about it takes them from to the right of Canadians liberals to the left of the NDP
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the stuff that they were fixating on largely focusing along illegal immigration talking about will they
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actually just let people cross over they will stop it from being a major crime instead something you
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write a ticket for a fine a minor offense all of them raising their hands yes would you expand broader
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health care to all of these people crossing illegally even though not every American necessarily has that
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type of health care yes they all raise their hand for all of that I mean wow talk about strange stuff
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and they were asked what's the greatest threat to the world today China or Russia anyone who's being
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been paying attention to the geopolitical scene for the past year or so knows the answer is China I mean
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you just look at their growth compared to the fact the Russian economy and other aspects of Russia is
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not growing it's stagnating or atrophying you don't answer Russia they're all saying Russia why
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because of some some hacking during the 2016 election I mean these are people who are really
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kind of stuck in the past but in a very odd way still thinking they're fighting last time's election
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back in 2016 but with these very very I don't even know if I want to call them progressive views
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this pretty much embracing of open borders the bottom line and I think the big challenge for
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them is Donald Trump whatever you think of his personality and makes the crass tweets and comments
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on many issues he's he's ultimately right on things like no you can't cross the border illegally and
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yes you have to stand during the national anthem something that we're told in school and we get sent to
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the principal's office if we don't do it is his delivery a bit rough and tumble you better believe it is
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but in the essence of things the core of things he's more or less striking the right notes and I think
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a lot of Americans know that whereas what you're hearing from these Democrats the sort of obsession
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with how everything has to be about embracing people who do illegal immigration or embracing
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climate alarmism this this crazy green new deal thing I mean this is just stuff that isn't going
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to sit well with regular people so this has been the conversation that the Democrats have been
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having and I think it's emblematic of the broader left in general do they go far left to say look
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how much of a contrast we are in a choice to try and race each other in that direction or do they
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offer moderate sensible sane centrist responses as as their approach to shoring up victory and that's
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the question they're facing and I think the question that the left is facing everywhere because
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their victories of their own successes all of these things they've been asking for in recent decades
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pushing for expansions of government and more for the most part they've gotten it and conservatives
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ceded the ground to them so now they've been victorious what do they do do they try and be
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stakeholders of the society they built or do they keep trying to do more and more government
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emboldening stuff wacky progressive stuff that gets you to the point where you're de facto open
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border supporters and yeah you want this green new deal thing which is just absolutely wild lots of
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questions what lots of soul searching ahead for yes the Democrats in the United States and really for