jusplay4fun wrote:However, I would say that Trump is not a SAINT; his "goodness" is a moral and subjective matter. There is no real Bad or Good in many such matters and persons. No one is truly Good or truly Evil, imo.
Totally. I believe this is more of a religious/non-religious thing. Religion favors absolute morality and non-religion favors subjective morality. That is a whole other discussion.
jusplay4fun wrote:Many of our politicians (especially U.S. Presidents) had faults ... (Both had more faults, but these come to me quickly without more reflection.)
This is the meat of what I was getting at in the other thread with the morality meter. If they all have personal faults/sin/evils and you can't really measure which one is morally worse, then you have to cancel that out and use something else as the basis for your decision making. So, while it is fair to say Trump/Biden/Harris/Vance/Walz irks me more than the other, there really isn't a point to throwing morality shade into the argument.
They all have lied. Trump is a conman and fraudster. How is that different from Harris changing her policies every two days? We are pretty screwed no matter what. But I do believe Harris/Walz would generally lead us far more left as a country and I think that is a bad thing. Right now the left wants to do away with Free Speech and any part of the Constitution they don't like. The right has all kinds of problems, but I think freedom of speech is more important than any of those issues.
If you aren't allowed to talk and discuss anything, then you have no power as a citizen. All of our other powers have been usurped by the government. We aren't supposed to be double taxed, but have you ever sold a car? Why are you tax on income and the purchase of goods? Etc. There are a whole slew of things the government is doing to us that we should be focused on stopping and reverting before we worry about other things.
But to keep this on topic, sorry, Trump did not do himself any favors in the debate. I don't think people are changing their mind. I feel like there are very few who would change their mind even if either candidate claimed to be the devil. I do think that Harris didn't damage herself though like people were thinking she would.