It's kind of broad and I'm probably hypocritical on some of it but complete government control of things. There are very few things I want the government to be the sole decision maker on.

It somewhat shocks me how casually some are willing to hand over major portions of our lives over to the government to do whatever they want.

I can't vote for somebody who doesn't believe in evolution, or that climate change is real, and a serious threat. As FF mentioned, the drug war has been a complete disaster. I'm not interested in a hawkish foreign policy, and supply side economics is an absolute failure.

I'd say a close second is our foreign policy which caused ISIS which caused everyone in the country to lose their damn minds and elect Trump as president.

Healthcare.



I'd say normal political trends and a "grass is greener" mentality caused people to vote Trump. Oh, and good ol' fashioned southern racism.

MANY factors did. I think ISIS scaring the shit out of us even though they pose almost zero threat is among the top reasons.

ISIS is fighting a war to establish a Caliphate, so it's safe to criticize ISIS or ISIL or whatever you want to call it, but it's not like many of the theocratic ideas held by ISIS are far outside the mainstream of Islamic belief. And we seem reluctant to discuss that for fear of being called bigots or offending the Muslim guy next door who isn't much different than you or me except that he worships at a different place or worships at all.

And here's why such a philosophy is dangerous in a nuclear world. We can say Russia and China are military threats. But I think it's also safe to say that they aren't really willing to die in order to achieve an end. With a nuke in the hands of an Islamic theocracy you have the potential for a suicide bombing writ large.

Sure, but that's such an unlikely possibility it's absurd to base any type of policy on it. As it stands, ISIS is not a threat to Americans. They should not be remotely at the top of any politicians priority list.

ISIS is a red herring.

ISIS is a red herring. People wanted a change from the Democratic president who didn't do enough in their minds, which was the same way everyone felt when GW Bush's term ended and we voted in a Democrat.

I don't think so. There's a reason the "bomb the shit out of ISIS" and "ban all Muslims" guy won.