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What - exactly - do you think Trump as president will do to breakup the culture wars? What - exactly - will he do to shave "trillions" in government waste, assuming there is trillions in government waste. Simply saying so and pointing to his net worth is not policy, it's not a solution, it's grandstanding.

I expect his mere lack of participation in the culture wars in any meaningful way would be enough to kill them.

Someone who is at least thinking about inefficiency and waste is sure gonna do a better job getting rid of it than someone not thinking about it at all. The exact figure is unknown, it could be billions or just millions or even trillions - trillions is perhaps however in this case speechifying hyperbole.

>Clinton is a known quantity, yes. But I know that a Hillary Clinton presidency will be 8 years of investigations and recriminations into crimes, real or imagined. I also know that very little will change going from an Obama presidency to a Clinton one.

If people wanted real, substantial change in a positive direction (in the sense of having a positive program: things the candidate stands for rather than against), they'd have voted for Bernie Sanders.

Turns out the majority of people don't like Communism/Socialism.

> The best case, he's a very effective president and can break down walls,

Hmm... I thought he had been talking about building walls

But Mike Pence though...

Mike Pence is a serious problem for me, for his religious views mostly. Economically, he seems to have helped Indiana do well - I don't know if that scales nationally or not. Gary Johnson s a choice is looking likely for me.

I'd try to intellectually point out why you're completely wrong and Trump is an imminent danger to our country (see: Turkey the past two years), but I see that you live in Washington, which means your vote for Trump is irrelevant.

I'm probably going to vote for Gary Johnson - if I vote at all. I'm so disgusted by the Republican Party Platform, what I was considering before the convention is all for naught now.

Please don't bring someone's personal details into an argument on HN. That's a breach of civility.

It's listed in his public HN profile, it's not like I'm doxxing him.

It's also relevant to the discussion at hand: a non-democratic vote in the state of Washington, due to the electoral college winner-take-all allotment, will not have any impact on the final outcome of the state. I'm not attacking him for where he lives; it's merely pointing out a fact of life.

No, this is established moderation practice on HN and I must insist on the point. Finding personal details and bringing them back to an argument as ammunition is unduly personal and therefore not allowed here.

I'm sure you didn't mean any harm and agree that doxxing would be worse, but it still degrades the quality of discourse when people do this. So please don't do this.