This is rather long, but I have a lot to get off my chest. I have heard several reasons that people had for voting for Donald Trump. Here are some of the reasons and the rebuttals.
“I’m not voting for Trump – I’m voting against Hillary”. So, you believe all the Faux News/Rush Limbaugh trash-talk about Ms. Clinton. Have you checked any of it out on Politifact or FactCheck? “Her Clinton foundation was a) anti-American; b) used her position as Sec. of State to browbeat countries into donating; c) paid for Chelsea’s wedding.” None of which was true. Charity Watch gives the Clinton Foundation an “A” and GuideStar gives it a “Platinum” rating for use of funds, etc. Ms. Clinton told the Senate that there would be a “firewall” between the foundation and her work as Secretary of State. The right-wingers and the media have yet to show any concrete evidence that the firewall was breached.
Benghazi. Clinton the Murderess! Not so much. The chief council for the Republicans on the Benghazi panel, Retired Army Lt. Gen. Dana Chipman, said, “Nothing could have affected what occurred in Benghazi.”
Fingers should also point at the GOP-led legislature, too. They cut funding to the State Department, leaving Benghazi security understaffed. Anne Stevens, sister of Chris Stevens, said, “Chris knew that. It wasn’t a secret to him. He decided to take the risk to go there. It is not something they did to him. It is something he took on himself.”
Emails. Yes. She should have read the manual instead of just doing what her predecessors did. But, having worked with many higher-ups in City government, I know most of them know squat about computer/email stuff. They rely on their IT personnel to set it up correctly. I’ll bet Hillary is just as clueless as 99% of Americans about computers. How many of you actually know what a server is?
I applaud her for not using her IT people as scapegoats. I’d also like to point out that the State Dept. servers have been hacked.
Unfortunately, the news media prints the allegations in 20-point font size and the exonerations on the back page in 8-point.
So, bottom line, instead of voting for a woman who’s made mistakes, but devoted her life to helping people and the United States, you voted for a person who’s never done anything that didn’t directly profit Donald Trump.
“I like his economic policies”. Really? And how much study did you do on said policies? I’m sure they sounded good when he said them. But if you’d fact-checked, you’d have found out they’re not so good. In fact, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, in comparing Trump’s economic policy with Clinton’s, said that Trump’s plan is likely to cause another recession. Plus, his policies will raise taxes on the middle class and (again, since we’re talking GOP) lower taxes on the top .01%. So, unless you’re a lot richer than I thought, why do you like his policies?
And, of course, there’s the one-issue voter. And no issue gets more votes than abortion. And I’m sure the religious right voted for Trump because they’re hoping his Supreme Court pick(s) will reverse Roe vs. Wade.
Well, you know what? You’re objection to abortion is based on your religious beliefs and I’m getting sick and tired of you people trying to force your religious beliefs on everyone else.
I personally, look at abortion from a scientific point of view and I find it appalling that your religion chooses a non-thinking, non-feeling, non-viable blastocyst or even fetus over the living, thinking, feeling woman who doesn’t think or feel that she should be forced to have a baby that, for reasons you don’t know, she doesn’t want and/or can’t support. And I find your insistence that she have a child to actually be cruel. And considering the earth is fast approaching the tipping point, population-wise, a bit stupid and short-sighted as well.
I have felt many times, listening to the anti-choice folks, that part of their reason for insisting that the woman have the child is to punish her for having the audacity to have sex.
The test shouldn’t be ‘when life begins’. It should be, when should we consider the fetus a human. I personally think we should use the opposite of death: no heartbeat, no brain waves -- dead, to limit abortions. If there’s a heartbeat AND brainwaves, that fetus is human and should not be aborted. Although a heartbeat can be detected at 18 days (as the anti-choice billboards blare), brain waves aren’t detected until around 18-20 WEEKS – long past the point most abortions are done.
So, ‘pro-lifers’, you vote against Hillary Clinton, a woman who has spent her entire adult career trying to help already-born children and women. Just one more reason that so many people think anti-choice people only worry about children up to the point that they’re being born. After that, they don’t care.
I personally am more worried about the thinking, feeling, already born children in Africa and other areas that are starving because global warming has turned their once-fertile homelands into deserts. And you’ve voted for a president who ignores 97% (or better) of the climate scientists who say, yes, global warming is real and yes, it’s being pushed along at a terrifying rate by our dependence on fossil fuels. And, he’s appointing other deniers – even fossil-fuel energy executives -- to important cabinet positions that control our climate.
Are you a denier, too, or are you just too selfish to give up your big gas guzzlers?
Along with the right-wing, anti-choice folks are the anti-LGBT folks. I have some questions for you: Why are you so hung up on other people’s sex lives? Is it going to hurt you to bake a cake for two people who love each other? What is it going to hurt you if you hire that gay guy? Are you afraid he’s going to have sex with his partner right there at work? My stance is: anything you do for divorced people you should also do for LGBT people. If you bake a cake for two divorcees remarrying, you should bake for gays. After all, Jesus came out strongly against divorce. But he said nothing about LGBT. Oh, another thing Jesus said had to do with the mote in your brother’s eye while you ignore the log in yours. So maybe you should be working on your own sin of being judgmental. And I will, too. Because I’ll admit, I’m judging you very negatively.
Trump seems to hate anyone who’s not white. He’s made horrible remarks about Blacks, Latinos and Muslims. He tried to block Blacks from renting in his buildings. His Chief-of-Staff, Steve Bannon, wants everyone out of the country who isn’t white. I guess that includes the Native Americans who were here first. Bannon is so racist, he makes the KKK look like a kumbaya group. Of course, I guess this racism makes Trump look even better to some of his supporters.
A patriot? Give me a break! This is a man who bragged about not paying taxes for 20 years. While we middle-class folks foot the country’s bills, he thinks he’s ‘smart’ for not paying his share. He was a draft dodger as well. (Bone spurs?? Easily fixed. Could have served.)
But the most astounding reason I’ve heard is a person who said, “He has a good heart.” REALLY!?!? This is a man who 1) publicly body-shames women; 2) brags about grabbing women by their genitals; 3) insulted a Gold Star family; 4) calls anyone and everyone who disagrees with him “loser” or worse; 5) declares bankruptcy so he can pay his contractors/workers pennies on the dollar while he lives in a tacky, gold-crusted penthouse; 6) lies, then, even when shown proof of what he said/did, has the audacity to say, “Never happened.”; 7) buys beauty contests so he can traipse around the dressing rooms and ogle the contestants – even teen-agers – while they’re changing clothes; and, to my mind, the worst 8) publicly and brutally mocked a disabled reporter. He is a cruel, heartless egotist. I have not seen or read any instance that Donald Trump ever did anything to help anyone except Donald Trump.
I’m a Democrat, and I know many of you are GOP. I’ve disagreed with the political views of both Bushes and Reagan. But I’ve never doubted that they were decent men. Trump is not a decent person.
I find Trump and his actions despicable and disgusting and, sorry, I can’t help myself, I am also disgusted with people who could look past all these horrible things and vote for him anyway.
Finally, if you’re a knee-jerk Republican who just cannot vote for a Democrat, I feel sorry for you and your rigidity. Even as the president of the Northland Democratic Club, I still weigh the choices and have, on occasion, voted for a Republican. If you can’t see past the party and judge the person, well, that’s just pathetic.
And, since Missouri and Kansas both went for Trump and I don’t know for sure who voted for him and who didn’t, I’m moving to Belize.
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