O/T:- Betting odds for US Election [The USA Politics Thread]

[Lullapie]

You are right, I am absolutely obsessed with the idea that this was a left-right contest. Like so many others. Thanks for pointing that out.

I agree with a lot of what you've said, but you've missed out a few key points. Trump is more right wing than Biden/Harris when it comes to his views on the size and role of the state and the scope of bureaucracy and regulation. He has a slight libertarian streak in this regard, whereas the Biden/Harris and the Dems instinctively want to control stuff.

Trump threatens, but doesn't always do. He is more intelligent, in my opinion, than most politicians because he knows how to get what he wants and what he wants is what politics throughout the world is lacking - common sense. I am a Libertarian, that's why people like Trump appeal to me.

I reckon, and I've said this before, that the modern day left aren't what us oldies remember. They are agenda and ideology driven. This has pushed them further left around the political spectrum making their policies unworkable - only ideological.

This in turn has left a massive vacuum on the centre-left, which has been filled in the US by the MAGA movement. Republicans like Cheney (and his lovely wife) and the others that jumped ship couldn't care less about workers. They just focus on growing their own personal wealth. They went in balls deep with the party of the billionaires and joined the Democrats.