Ok, I'll change my 'will' to 'might' and then check back here, on the blockchain, in the future. I do read party platforms and policy papers, and go by them and actual past votes, where they exist. In my experience, it's been pretty accurate in tracking the general direction of the administration that comes in. Time will tell.
Trump has laid out the outlines of what he wants to do and how, so it should be more than a guess about where his focus will be, unless you are saying he is fundamentally untrustworthy. It takes thousands of political appointments to make any Presidential agenda happen, as well as Congress. His capacity to make those thousands of appointments is limited, without deep reliance on the Republican bench. And we know - not a guess, not a prediction - what that party platform, policies, and past votes have been, too. Now that Kris Kobach from Kansas, the creator of Arizona's SB 1070, is on Trump's transition team, the limits of the word 'might' become a little more well-defined than a full-on 'guess'.
I can go with that. Thanks for changing it to might. I truly have no clue what is going to happen at this point. I also don't know what Trump will be like with political power. We shall see.
I didn't vote for either of them. I do consider Trump the lesser of two evils in the case of him and Hillary, but that is going off of him having no records of certain types to compare to. It doesn't matter though as I promised I'd never vote for the lesser of two evils again and I stuck to that promise.
Let me know when you finally ever vote, then.
Do you realize what your job is as a voter? To vote for the person that best represents you. That was neither of those guys for me. There are only TWO ways to really throw your vote away. 1) Vote for someone that doesn't represent you, or 2) or not vote at all. The rest of the throw your vote away is all peer pressure bullshit that actually has nothing to do with what your job actually is as a citizen. So when you really vote let me know. :)
Interesting - We see our job as a voter very differently. Representing me is only one of many jobs those guys have. They also will represent many other folks, too. Like you, I can't find anyone on a ballot that represents me completely. So I look for who they will be able to represent effectively. And that information is embedded in their platforms, policies, and past votes. Those guys may represent some folks I don't care for, and they may neglect to represent other folks that I absolutely care for. So I balance that.
And my voting is only one piece of my job as a citizen. Another is to stay actively engaged with people in and out of the political system, who can make things happen about the issues and people I care about. Politics is ugly and nasty because it's about control of power to make things happen -- we see that in tiny ways even about the direction and progress of Steemit. But it's less ugly and less nasty than making things happen by fascism, feudalism, or war - whether local, international, or anything in-between.