Below is a diary I wrote 3 ½ years ago, pre-Trump. I’ve been asked to repost it, so I’m obliging. If anything, it is even more applicable today, which I’m sure you will agree. At the bottom you get to choose from a poll of all announced major party candidates that I’m aware of (as well as 3 “other” selections + an heir apparent) which candidate you think can best repair our nation.
If you want government agencies to be underfunded, vote Republican
If you like government shutdowns & debt crises, vote Republican
If you want government to fail, vote Republican
If you want to double or triple the debt like what happened in the Reagan & Bush administrations, vote Republican
If you want our nation to become fiscally insolvent, vote Republican
If you like recessions, vote Republican
If you want another financial depression, vote Republican
If you want economic collapse, vote Republican
If you don’t want public health care, vote Republican
If you don’t want Social Security, vote Republican
If you don’t want Medicare or Medicaid, vote Republican
If you want all schools, hospitals, prisons, roads & public utilities to be privatized, vote Republican
If you want to reverse all progress towards civil rights, voting rights, gender equality & marriage equality, vote Republican
If you don’t believe in separation between church & state, vote Republican
If you don’t care for democracy, vote Republican
If you want a full-fledged corporatocracy, vote Republican
If you want a theocracy, vote Republican
If you want a totalitarian state, vote Republican
If you want Wall Street to be bailed out by Main Street, vote Republican (or for a Wall Street Democrat)
If you believe that people should work long hours for low pay, vote Republican
If you’re against a minimum wage, vote Republican
If you believe that corporate executives should make hundreds of times the salary of low level employees in the same company, vote Republican
If you approve of CEOs from failed companies receiving severance pay in the millions of dollars, vote Republican
If you believe that companies saved from bankruptcy or dissolution by government bailouts should award huge bonuses to their executives, vote Republican (or for a corporate Democrat)
If you want the wealth disparity between rich & poor to continue widening, vote Republican
If you want rich people & corporations to avoid taxes via tax loopholes & tax havens, vote Republican
If you’re in favor of hedge funds & speculation, vote Republican
If you like corporate takeovers & mergers & ever decreasing competition, vote Republican (or for a corporate Democrat)
If you want no regulation of business, vote Republican
If you want no restrictions on what people or companies can do to the environment, vote Republican
If you don’t think government should invest in education, vote Republican
If you think attending universities should impoverish students for life, vote Republican
If you like people being evicted from their houses or apartments, vote Republican
If you like poor people going to jail for loitering or smoking marijuana, vote Republican
If you like rich people & executives of large corporations being exempt from jail no matter what they do, vote Republican (or for a corporate Democrat)
If you think police should shoot first & ask questions later (or conceal the crime they committed), vote Republican
If you want law enforcement officers to be exempt from being charged with murder for willful killing of innocent people, vote Republican
If you want a police state, vote Republican
If you want anybody who wants a gun – child, psychotic, terrorist – to be able to acquire one, vote Republican
If you want no limits on gun use, vote Republican
If you want a heavily militarized country, vote Republican
If you prefer the US to unilaterally invade sovereign nations, vote Republican
If you want endless war & military adventures, vote Republican (or for a Democratic neocon)
If you want virtually all discretionary federal spending to go to the military, vote Republican
If you believe we should ignore science & just obey what corporations tell us to do, vote Republican
If you believe that religious dogma should be equated with science in public schools, vote Republican
If you want little or no government investment in scientific or medical research, vote Republican
If you want to remain dependent on fossil fuels, vote Republican
If you want to fall behind the rest of the world in conversion to renewable energy, vote Republican
If being 50 years behind Japan in high speed rail isn’t enough for you, vote Republican
If you want to force people to drive everywhere to get around, vote Republican
If you prefer concrete & asphalt to soil & wetlands, vote Republican
If you prefer industrial agriculture to regenerative organic farming, vote Republican
If you prefer genetically engineered food to natural food, vote Republican
If you don’t want anybody to even know whether the food they buy is genetically modified or not, vote Republican
If you think that corporations should be able to patent elements of nature, like seeds, vote Republican
If you like crumbling infrastructure, vote Republican
If you look forward to global warming, vote Republican
If you don’t think externalities from fossil fuel consumption such as pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, spills, leaks, explosions & earthquakes & associated health costs & casualties should be paid by the companies responsible for them, vote Republican
If you believe greed is good, vote Republican
If you believe that it’s more important for corporations to extract as much wealth from our planet as quickly as possible than to conserve them, vote Republican
If you want our natural resources to be exhausted soon, vote Republican
If you want all our water to be contaminated or depleted in the foreseeable future, vote Republican
If you like breathing polluted air, vote Republican
If you like poisons & radiation spreading throughout our land, water & air, vote Republican
If you approve of the multi-decade campaign of deliberate misinformation & deceit conducted by fossil fuel companies in order to prevent or delay action on climate chaos until it’s too late, vote Republican
If you care nothing about whether our planet will be habitable or not 50 years from now, vote Republican
If you want most animal & plant species to be wiped out in the near future, vote Republican
If you want domesticated animals to completely replace wild animals, vote Republican
If you prefer expanded deserts & wasteland to forests & wetlands, vote Republican
If you like oil leaks, gas explosions, coal spills, etc. or believe that the public should pay for them rather than the culpable companies, vote Republican
If you want high unemployment, vote Republican
If you want our jobs going overseas or across borders, vote Republican
If you don’t believe in any kind of public jobs program, vote Republican
If you want trade pacts favoring corporations over the public, the environment or national sovereignty, vote Republican (or a corporate Democrat)
If you’re xenophobic, vote Republican
If you’re homophobic, vote Republican
If you believe whites should receive preferential treatment over other races, vote Republican
If you believe that men should receive preferential treatment over women, vote Republican
If you prefer civil strife to racial harmony, vote Republican
If you want civil war, vote Republican
If you want World War III, vote Republican
If you want a fascist takeover of our government reminiscent of Nazi Germany, vote Republican
If you want the end of the world (as we know it), vote Republican
