@bobsal u1553115,
I think one reason issues aren't discussed as they should be is because of character issues that loom so large over everything else.
Some people balk about character, but it is the most preeminent issue in an election. What a candidate says bears no weight if you don't believe them.
When I was younger, no president who'd smoked pot or had a reputation as a "womanizer" had a snowball's chance in hell of being elected. Laughable now. A candidate's "moral" reputation was supposed to help voters decide if he had the integrity to possess and administer the office.
Those times are gone - and in my opinion, rightly so.
But character is still vitally important. If I'm voting on the issues, I have to make a determination about which candidate most closely espouses my views. If a candidate says they do, I have to at least be able to muster reasonable confidence that they mean what they say.
In the case of the two 2016 candidates, it makes no difference what they say. Both are proven liars who will say whatever polling suggests will increase their odds.
It's a waste to hear anything they say about issues. Neither can pass the believe-ability hurdle. Why hear their noise?
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