So it took forever to load, then takes forever to start.  I selected the "good" guys and have a bunch of storm troopers to play as for some reason.  So I turned it off.  Not happy so far...

I'm not sure.  I don't pretend to have all of the answers.  My bigger picture belief is that a more balanced approach would benefit everyone and this pandering to the extremes is creating some of the pressure on the middle class. The middle class today isn't factory workers like it was when I was young.  They are now the working poor.  Today it is professionals and technology dominates it in some form or another.   

Democratic policies have resulted in a growing lower and lower-middle class.  It's what they want...more people depending on them rather than making a life on their own.  That's bad for the country as a whole.

I already have a PS4.  I'm thinking about buying an xbox one since the price seems to be coming down mostly to use as a blue ray player, but I could certainly use it for gaming too.  Any pros/cons vs the PS4 that I should be aware of?

Still haven't played this yet, though I did hook it up.  I'll get to it eventually.

No, you're making up a reality that fits your expected outcome.  You're in full blown panicking like a pussy mode and it's pathetic.  The sky is falling, the sky is falling...I've heard that from you before when you predicted doom and gloom after the election, yet here we are a year later and everything is just fine, though not at all the way you want it to be.  That's too bad for you, but pretty good for a lot of other people.  You keep rooting for doom and gloom though, because so far you've been wrong every time.  One of these times maybe you'll get lucky, but I'll play the odds and say you're still wrong.