Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[mateinone]

Whilst Trump is only third in the betting odds, I think it will be Donald Trump or Jeb Bush that will almost certainly win the Republican vote and I think that Trump's policies (which almost every other Republican is blasting) are the exact reason why. He says things that hit a home run with a lot of American's, especially a lot of Republicans and they like that he doesn't care.

For a lot of American's they have a strong leaning towards a party and they see parties as simply being along the lines of the following

Republican -
Taxes..
[table]
[tr][td]Issue[/td][td]Republican[/td][td]Democrat[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Government Regulations[/td][td]Governments should interfere as little as possible and a free market place is required for growth.[/td][td]Government regulation is necessary to prevent exploitation and ensure companies don't ride over worker and consumers through monopolization for example.[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Taxes[/td][td]Should never be raised, flat rates[/td][td]Tax share should be progressive and based on earning[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Military[/td][td]Buy another a bomb!!![/td][td]Cut spending or keep status [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Gun Control[/td][td]This country was formed on the back of the right to bear arms[/td][td]More open to gun control [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Abortion[/td][td]More likely to be strongly against[/td][td]More likely to see it as a person's individual choise [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Health Care[/td][td]Strongly (very strongly) against spending taxes on providing health care for all[/td][td] Support for government funded health care [/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Immigation[/td][td]As above, this is a massive issue for Republicans and generally they would want all undocumented worker deported.[/td][td] More open to a policy that says if they have been here a while, been good citizens etc etc then they should have an option to apply for citizenship[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Death Penalty[/td][td]Majority approve, few don't[/td][td]Majority approve, some NE states don't[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Minimum Wage[/td][td]No minimum wage, if a person will work for $1 an hour a company should be able to pay them that.[/td][td]Minimum wage prevents exploitation of workers*[/td][/tr]
[/table]

* It doesn't really, it only shields them a touch, the US minimum wage is an absolute joke.

Overall for a number of people in America it doesn't matter if it is Donald Duck vs Mickey Mouse.
A republican wants their gun, they do NOT want THEIR wages TAXED for other benefit.
My ex-wife was married to a guy in the military for me and she worked on an Army base so a lot of her friends were military and I can say that an extremely large portion of them are hard core republicans and if it was Donald Trump or Donald Duck up against Hilary, they would be voting hard for either Donald.

In saying that..

The republicans could be described as..
God fearing people who believe the founding fathers and god determined how this country should be run and by god and the founding fathers all decisions should be made.

This makes them very pro gun, anti-abortion, anti-gay etc etc ...

But this is becoming out-dated and Mav touched on a reason with the sheer numbers of the population changing, but even more than that, everyone on social media is developing a conscience. More and more if you were to post anti-abortion or anti-gay slogans, you would be shot down.
If you ran a business and were openly promoting these standards, it would be the end of you unless it was a local shop in the heart of Texas.
The "America" that the Republican party hold is disappearing, but they still have at least a few elections left in them and it would not completely surprise to see Trump as the next president. In essence in the future being called a republican will the same as being called a bigot or backwards or anything of the like, being called liberal is usually considered more in trend.

If I had stayed on and gone from resident to citizen, I would have actually joined the democrat party as I think I am against basically every Republican policy, I think most Australian's who like the Australian way of life would be democrats (though not all).

All of the above goes out the window if there was a war.
If there was a war tomorrow, a White American Republican Male would be the president (Bush or Trump, doesn't really matter).