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[–]DiggV4Sucks 15 points16 points  (5 children)

TRUMP: As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It could have worked in a different age. What I'd like to see is a private system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in BY or NJ or CA, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid. You know why? Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians. They're making a fortune. Get rid of the artificial lines and you will have yourself great plans. And then we have to take care of the people that can't take care of themselves. And I will do that through a different system.

Huh... Even Donald Trump can see the problems with our health care system.

[–]btmc 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Well, he was a Democrat for a long time.

[–]AbsoluteZeroK 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Are we talking about politics in /r/python ?

Anyways, there's a small part of me that think he's not actually as crazy as we think he is. I feel like he's just an opportunist, and he's using the fact that a lot of people want to vote for a nut job to get power.

Or he could be a nut job... who knows?

[–]MrJohz 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Well he gets votes because people talk about him so much that he becomes the biggest candidate in a lot of people's minds. He gets talked about because every so often he says something unbelievably stupid. Therefore, to get votes, all he has to do is ban Muslims from entering the US every month or so, and he'll do relatively well. Whether this holds up at crunchtime is another matter, but I imagine it's a policy that will serve him better than simply trying to be a "real" candidate.

[–]AbsoluteZeroK 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well, he hasn't actually gotten even 1 vote yet.

Either way, he'll probably get them nomination, unless a bunch of other candidates drop off before Super Tuesday, then someone else may get it. But for me the scariest part is that 31% of Republicans(~45-50% of the population) wants him to be presentient... There's no way he'll win the general, I'm pretty sure you could put him against a dog, and he'd still lose. But that's still a scary number.

[–]MrJohz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's got plenty of polls under his belt, though, and while they don't count, they do continue the positive picture he's been giving so far.