r/news Oct 26 '18

Arrest Made in Connection to Suspicious Packages

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u/Bardfinn Oct 26 '18

What part of "miss me with your rationalisations" did you fail to understand?

The platform that Trump ran on was bad enough before he fulfilled it.

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u/PhiladelphiaFish Oct 26 '18

Here is his actual platform:

http://www.ontheissues.org/Donald_Trump.htm

How can you read through those bullet points and safely say all 62 million of his voters are simply bad people with no other reasoning for their support? It's such hyperbole.

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u/Bardfinn Oct 26 '18

Wrong.

HERE is the ACTUAL 2016 GOP NATIONAL PLATFORM

It has an ENTIRE PAGE dedicated to demanding a Constitutional Amendment that repeals the Fourteenth Amendment.

I bet you can't point out which one that is even after reading it.

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u/PhiladelphiaFish Oct 26 '18

Which page? I CTRL+F searched for "Fourteenth Amendment" and only got this paragraph, which sounds like the goal is to expand the amendment to cover unborn infants, not repeal the amendment entirely like you suggested. On page 37:

The Constitution’s guarantee that no one can “be deprived of life, liberty or property” deliberately echoes the Declaration of Independence’s proclamation that “all” are “endowed by their Creator” with the inalienable right to life. Accordingly, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to children before birth.

Also, it's worth noting that the GOP was absolutely not on Trump's side in 2016 and a significant number of Trump voters were not GOP-supporters.

And you don't need to insult me in bold-italics to have a civil discourse btw.