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| So why would I vote for anyone other than the Democrat?
I've been trying hard to bite my tongue. To not lash out at those fellow Americans of mine who have, apparently, gone insane and are actually backing this dangerous, moronic demagogue, this cheeto=colored old man who has told more lies than a thousand Pinochio's could've told in a million years. This creature who wants to make a mockery of our Constitution and any moral standing we have left in the world after Bush Jr. and Chain gang Cheney took a giant dump on the planet. And yet, there must be people backing Trump for his poll numbers to be as close to Hillary's as they are. Terrifying notion that there are that many of Trump's famous 'Poorly Educated' out there. Luckily, I only know of one person backing Trump and, for the life of me, I can only assume that the reason he does (after years and years of hearing him trash Trump in the most pointed ways) is that he's so ingrained into voting for the R - any R that he had to convince himself that Trump was somehow 'his guy.' It's odd too, because my friend is actually a very nice guy. He's smart - certainly not one of Trump's ''poorly educated'' - and generous and has a heart of gold for animals. I just will NEVER understand his politics and I doubt he'll ever understand mine, either. I also doubt that Trump's obvious traitorous actions and words and his refusal to prove he's not in bed with the Russians by releasing his tax returns will somehow not affect my friend one bit. It'll somehow all be the 'liberal media' out to get The Donald. It'll be the fault of Democrats for not recognizing Trump's 'joke'. It'll be anything but what it obviously is - he, and millions of others, are backing an overt traitor to our nation. A man who cares nothing about America but how much he can suck out of her for his own empire. A man for whom "LOW" is the starting point and he will sink from there until the sewer is a lofty place full of unicorn babies and puppy smiles. A man who has long sung the praises of Putin and who's campaign manager recently worked for Putin's BFF in the Ukraine before he absconded with millions. This is the guy they want. Ugh.
I hadn't planned on working for the Democrats this year unless Bernie got the nomination. But, as an American, as a veteran and as a father I CANNOT sit back and allow even a small possibility that these people can get Trump into office. NO WAY. It cannot happen and I'll be out there working as hard as I can to ensure that it does not happen. I urge anyone who truly thinks America is already pretty great, anyone who doesn't think we need a 'savior' to come in and fix everything while not telling anyone how he'll do it, anyone who believes that America is and should remain a melting pot and who doesn't want to give in to the terrorists who love to see us cower in terror and toss everything that makes America unique and special overboard for 'safety'. If you are one of those people you MUST not sit back and do nothing this election. Your vote against Trump - even if you don't like Hillary - is a great and important first step, but you've got to bring all of your family and friends into the mix too. We need not just to beat Trump and his Trumpanzees but we need to beat them in a landslide of huge proportions so they never again pick someone as dangerous and unqualified to lead their party.
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I've wondered about the people who support Trump. Trump is a walking disaster, but what about the people who support him? THEY are America's problem. We now know we have among us in this country millions of people who are willing to sell their souls to a traitor because he RECENTLY put an "R" after his name.
ReplyDeleteThe Evangelicals support a serial adulterer, a man who cheats small businesses out of money he promised to pay them for their work, a man who makes fun of disabled people, a racist, and one of the worst demagogues I've seen in my lifetime. They are moral cowards. All of them. They will not prevail.
We need Florida to stay blue. When I lived there years ago, I worked for the Democratic Party and did phone work during the 2000 campaign for Al Gore.
Keep up the good fight, Bluebull.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Shaw. I'm lucky to be in deep blue South East Florida but we'll need each and every one of those blue voters to get out and vote to overcome the problems from other parts of the state.
ReplyDeleteYou're right - those backing Trump will never prevail. Never.
It pains me to use the word despise to describe how I feel about a person, even those I have deep differences with. So I don't. I do however make an exception when it comes to Trump.
ReplyDeleteTrump's America would be so far removed from the America I grew up in and love I would feel like an alien in my own country. But it isn't Trump alone. In fact it is the entire GOP since the Tea Party movement got out of hand and became a group of malcontents and anti everything that didn't fir their narrow agenda. The Tea Party, Evangelicals, and thge Neocons spawned Trump and so they own him.
Twenty five years ago I was a republican and a co chairman of my town's republican committee. Today I want nothing to do with the party but remain saddened by what it has become.
Because this election is so very important I will be supporting HRC. Not because I believe she has all the right ideas or solutions, don't. And yes, she is a bit too liberal for my liking. I will support her because believe Trump has all he wrong idea's and is an evil person.
Clinton may be wrong on some things, but I really know she has America's interests and those of all its people at heart. The same can't be said about Trump the Traitor.
I voted for Reagan over Carter and I signed up to vote as a Republican. It felt odd, actually, because very few Native Americans are Republicans and most have a deep love for Jimmy Carter and all he did for us during his term. I now deeply regret that vote I made and I switched parties and have never looked back. I don't agree with everything the Democrats do but I can find nothing to value or support on the Republican side, anymore. Nothing.
DeleteI so agree with you about feeling like an alien in my own country. I served in uniform for ten years and to imagine that my fellow citizens could back Trump makes me wonder if my time and the injuries I sustained from a sniper was worthwhile. Then I see my kids and now grandkids and I know that it was worth it all.
___ Battling in the Darkness ___
ReplyDeleteIrrationality combined with spite
Laced with paranoid self-righteous zeal
Makes a combination hard to fight,
Since adversaries treat with nothing real.
Projection of self-doubt with willfulness
Combines to seal out decent, common sense.
So, even virtue shown with skillfulness
Cannot penetrate Obduracy’s defense.
Alas! The joy of honest thoughts exchanged
Is lost midst warring egotists stalemated ––
Entrenched by suppositions oft deranged ––
Employed to see all mutually berated.
Thus trapped in darkness blindly on we fight
Afraid to see our faults exposed to light.
~ FreeThinke
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"Murder will out ..." };^)>
~ Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
I'm sorry FT but I have no idea what you're trying to say here. Please, in the future, would you do me the favor of using your own words to convey your thoughts? Thank you, very much.
DeleteI know what he's doing. He'd rather be oblique than come out and tell us Liberals how much he detests our values and ideology.
DeleteThis is the same man who believes in violating our Constitution to get rid of all the "vermin Moslems" from the U.S., because he believes all Muslims are filthy murdering jihadists. Remember what the Nazis said of the Jews in 1930s -- they used exactly the same language to demonize the Jews. So F.T. believes we should subvert the Constitution because all Muslims are dirty killers -- that would include the Khans, who spoke at last night's DNC convention and whose son gave his life for others. But Mr. F.T. is also part of the crowd that's been howling for the past 7 1/2 years that President Obama has shredded the Constitution! So, my take away is that shredding the Constitution in service to their anti-American ideas is just fine. When Mr. Obama helped pass the ACA, THAT was treasonous and anti-Constitutional. (And their bitterest pill to swallow was that the SCOTUS found the ACA to be Constitutional -- hence their raging hatred of all things Liberal!)
I can't keep up with all of their nonsense. Can anyone else?
Mr. Free Thinke is passionate about his political beliefs and believes anyone who disagrees with them is "spiteful," "irrational," and "Marxist." His posting of that poem is supposed to show us Liberals how superior he and his ideology is over any liberal who holds a differing point of view. In his opinion, we Liberals are "deranged." Plus he detests with a gut-wrenching hatred, Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteBut the fact that he and his party support a demagogue like Trump undermines any credibility they think they have as patriotic Americans.
He and his fellow travelers never see the hypocrisy of supporting a man who is utterly unfit for office. It is only their raging hatred of Hillary Clinton that compels them to ignore Trump's dangerous candidacy for the most important office in the world.
He and his fellow travelers astound me and other Americans -- they would destroy everything this country stands for by supporting Trump just because of their deranged hatred of Hillary Clinton.
I don't understand people like that.
BTW, I respect Les because he holds love of country over any ideology, and it takes a man of principle to do that.
I know it's not PC to say but I really don't enjoy poetry, one bit. I've tried but I always end up glassy eyed and annoyed and just want to shout "Just talk, dammit."
ReplyDeleteI do not understand either why they are backing Trump and I certainly agree about their irrational hatred of all things Clinton. I think they've been doing it for so long (at least 25 years now) that it's all they know to do about the Clintons. Hillary has long been far too conservative for my liking, but she's sane, she uses reason and rational thought and she knows how to deal with others - none of which can be said about Drumpf.
Bluebull, that's one thing Mr. F.T. and I have in common -- love of poetry. Let me introduce you to a past American Poet Laureate, Billy Collins and the great Native American poet, Sherman Alexie.
ReplyDeleteHere's one of my favorites by Billy Collins:
ReplyDeleteThe Lanyard
by Billy Collins
The other day I was ricocheting slowly
off the blue walls of this room,
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one into the past more suddenly—
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp
by a deep Adirondack lake
learning how to braid long thin plastic strips
into a lanyard, a gift for my mother.
I had never seen anyone use a lanyard
or wear one, if that's what you did with them,
but that did not keep me from crossing
strand over strand again and again
until I had made a boxy
red and white lanyard for my mother.
She gave me life and milk from her breasts,
and I gave her a lanyard.
She nursed me in many a sick room,
lifted spoons of medicine to my lips,
laid cold face-cloths on my forehead,
and then led me out into the airy light
and taught me to walk and swim,
and I , in turn, presented her with a lanyard.
Here are thousands of meals, she said,
and here is clothing and a good education.
And here is your lanyard, I replied,
which I made with a little help from a counselor.
Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,
and two clear eyes to read the world, she whispered,
and here, I said, is the lanyard I made at camp.
And here, I wish to say to her now,
is a smaller gift—not the worn truth
that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took
the two-tone lanyard from my hand,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless, worthless thing I wove
out of boredom would be enough to make us even.
And Sherman Alexie:
ReplyDeleteOn The Amtrak from Boston to New York City
The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look,
look at all the history, that house
on the hill there is over two hundred years old, '
as she points out the window past me
into what she has been taught. I have learned
little more about American history during my few days
back East than what I expected and far less
of what we should all know of the tribal stories
whose architecture is 15,000 years older
than the corners of the house that sits
museumed on the hill. 'Walden Pond, '
the woman on the train asks, 'Did you see Walden Pond? '
and I don't have a cruel enough heart to break
her own by telling her there are five Walden Ponds
on my little reservation out West
and at least a hundred more surrounding Spokane,
the city I pretended to call my home. 'Listen, '
I could have told her. 'I don't give a shit
about Walden. I know the Indians were living stories
around that pond before Walden's grandparents were born
and before his grandparents' grandparents were born.
I'm tired of hearing about Don-fucking-Henley saving it, too,
because that's redundant. If Don Henley's brothers and sisters
and mothers and father hadn't come here in the first place
then nothing would need to be saved.'
But I didn't say a word to the woman about Walden
Pond because she smiled so much and seemed delighted
that I thought to bring her an orange juice
back from the food car. I respect elders
of every color. All I really did was eat
my tasteless sandwich, drink my Diet Pepsi
and nod my head whenever the woman pointed out
another little piece of her country's history
while I, as all Indians have done
since this war began, made plans
for what I would do and say the next time
somebody from the enemy thought I was one of their own.
--Sherman Alexie.
Maybe it's because I learned English in the first grade (My mother was adamant that we only speak our language in our home), and I worked very hard to learn English - not an easy language - but I still have to work hard to grasp the meaning of poetry. Perhaps I'm just defective and missing that poetry gene, but I just don't enjoy it. :)
ReplyDeleteI've really tried. I guess I'm just too much a pick-up truck and beer kind've guy, at heart.