Because he appears to be an outsider from a political standpoint, and that off that bat makes him popular to a certain extent in a country where our democratically elected congress only has a 9%-16% approval rating.
Additionally, he just says everything. He says in one sentence he wants to appeal Obamacare, whereas in the last he endorses a single payer system. His hypocrisy goes unnoticed by most rep. Voters and even some blue dog democrats. He's authoritarian, and there's always a small sect of the population that are drawn to those candidates. It's not just that people are drawn to his tv-personality, that's some of it, but not nearly as much as people like to think of it as.
A lot of people have lost faith in the system after decades of incompetence so they are hoping that trump will be the one to 'clean out the bats' or at least impose a term limit on congress and bury some of the skeleton chair hogs.
Trump is a personality. In today's United States, a larger-than-life, celebrity personality goes an astoundingly far way with the American populace.
- Some people are rallying behind what they perceive to be a no-nonsense, say-what-he-wants politician who doesn't feel like he's part of the pre-existing political structure (which almost all sides of the US population feel is failing them in one way or another).
- Some are getting behind the desperate hope that someone, anyone, could "Make America Great Again!" when so much of it feels broken.
- Some are flocking to Trump as the solution to frustration over a nation they feel is obsessed with political correctness instead of solutions. Where they perceive that nothing ever gets accomplished.
- And some, I honestly believe, are simply caught up in the excitement and allure of a flashy, rich man dangling the idea in front of them that the United States of America could be rich and flashy as well (and by extension, all Americans).
- Then, of course, the sad truth is that old-fashioned fear-mongering towards people that are "different" still goes a shockingly far way in winning over people's emotions.
This is obviously not everything at play for Trump supporters, but as a U.S. citizen, it's definitely some things that stand out to me.
He's anti-establishment, anti-corporate, and anti-political correctness. That's attracting a lot of people, and everyone else is doing an astoundingly poor job of trying to counter it. At this point it's going to take some kind of miracle to stop his momentum at least up to the Republican nomination.
Just because Berine wouldn't help you explicitly doesn't make him bad. Like, I understand your concerns about taxes rising, but tha t isn't really all the social programs flaut. A lot of that money does things like build roads and schools and things we all agree we need. And another huge chunck goes to things that lobbist have gotten people to agree to. Like subsidizing unrecycled paper(this keeps new paper just as cheap if not cheaper then recycled paper. If this were not done, people would but more recycled paper, and not act like duchbags about it) or continuing to mint the penny even tough it is bad for us to do so because zinc lobbist want us too. And still another ridiculous chunk goes towards things that dont actually make any sense. Like spending millions in overlapping bus routes for politicians in DC. Or dumping billons of dollars into reaseach that won't even help Americans, or anyone. (things like, why do monkeys flinh their poop. I wish I was kidding).
And at the end of the day the president can't actually do anything to raise taxes. He had to get congress to do that. And most things really. He can only veto when congress makes a decision that he thinks is a bad one. So really, no matter who wins the presidency, it doesn't make a huge amount of difference.
But, so you know where the president does have power.
First, technically the military. But if our president tried anything to insane our Generals would be like "no, we aren't doing that" and really who do you think the soliders will listen to?
And two, international relations. The president doesn't actually make any rules about international relations, and has no power to, but he does interact with lots of leaders around the world, and we don't want him (or her, I guess I keep forgetting to point out) to really piss any of them off, or even offend them really.
I love how the entire premise of this discussion is wrong, in that Bernie sanders wouldn't raise taxes for the vast majority of Americans, with a small 2.2% tax on households (not individuals) that would replace health care premiums something the average American spends 10-30% of their income on.
You do some math and see which one cost less.
Other than that, he starts raising taxes on individuals who make 200,000+/year, everyone else who works a slandered job (e.g. Retail, manufacturing, management, etc) wont see a penny of tax increase.
1: the president doesn't actually have the power to do that.
2: An amount of what is wrong with congress is not buisness involvement.
3. Another major issue with congress is no one is willing to work together across party lines, and Trump isn't going to help on this issue.
4: Also, many Americas do not have the poltical education needed to make good informed political decisions. In order to get elected, and reelected, politicians need to do things that the people want. Which again, wouldn't be a bad thing, except that a majority of Americans do not have the education and experience needed to make good political decisions. Trump exemplifies this, gaining huge amounts of popular support, yet being said by his own party members to be a bad choice.
- Some people are rallying behind what they perceive to be a no-nonsense, say-what-he-wants politician who doesn't feel like he's part of the pre-existing political structure (which almost all sides of the US population feel is failing them in one way or another).
- Some are getting behind the desperate hope that someone, anyone, could "Make America Great Again!" when so much of it feels broken.
- Some are flocking to Trump as the solution to frustration over a nation they feel is obsessed with political correctness instead of solutions. Where they perceive that nothing ever gets accomplished.
- And some, I honestly believe, are simply caught up in the excitement and allure of a flashy, rich man dangling the idea in front of them that the United States of America could be rich and flashy as well (and by extension, all Americans).
This is obviously not everything at play for Trump supporters, but as a U.S. citizen, it's definitely some things that stand out to me.
But, so you know where the president does have power.
First, technically the military. But if our president tried anything to insane our Generals would be like "no, we aren't doing that" and really who do you think the soliders will listen to?
And two, international relations. The president doesn't actually make any rules about international relations, and has no power to, but he does interact with lots of leaders around the world, and we don't want him (or her, I guess I keep forgetting to point out) to really piss any of them off, or even offend them really.
You do some math and see which one cost less.
Other than that, he starts raising taxes on individuals who make 200,000+/year, everyone else who works a slandered job (e.g. Retail, manufacturing, management, etc) wont see a penny of tax increase.
2: An amount of what is wrong with congress is not buisness involvement.
3. Another major issue with congress is no one is willing to work together across party lines, and Trump isn't going to help on this issue.
4: Also, many Americas do not have the poltical education needed to make good informed political decisions. In order to get elected, and reelected, politicians need to do things that the people want. Which again, wouldn't be a bad thing, except that a majority of Americans do not have the education and experience needed to make good political decisions. Trump exemplifies this, gaining huge amounts of popular support, yet being said by his own party members to be a bad choice.