Supporting Trump is not your “opinion.” It’s just death

[niyad]

Supporting Trump is not your “opinion.” It’s just death
By Mark Morford on November 4, 2016 at 2:22 PM


Trump is not an opinion. He is just death




This is not a matter of opinion. It is not a matter of which party’s sociopolitical agenda you “believe” to be fair and true, and which you think is unsustainable and damaging – a bit of education reform here, America’s role in the U.N. there, your well-informed take on taxation and global economics, health care for the poor and the impact of environmental conservation. If you’re voting for Trump, you care as much for those notions as a fish cares about lasagna – which is to say: absolute zero, and aggressively so.

Nuanced policy? The function of the social contract in human civilization? A deep curiosity about science, art, foreign cultures, economics, the vast complexities world? These matter not at all to rabid Trump fans, as evidenced by the fact the man himself has forwarded what amounts to a laughable garbage pail of genuinely workable ideas – favoring, instead, a battery of spittle-flecked sucker punches that have only one thing in common: they all openly despise you. Could this be much clearer? For Trump, it’s all about hate, contraction, corrosion. Women, Jews, blacks, Muslims, Latinos, the environment, liberals, the poor, children, schools, health care and women’s rights, community and compassion, integrity and shared humanity? Here is a stubby, orange middle finger for all of you.

As the nation careens to the end of the ghastliest, most insufferable election season in your lifetime – all made so by the existence of one leering, bloviated beast of a rich white male – one final truth must be nailed, one and for all, into the coffin of Trump’s acidic campaign.
Note: This is nowhere near the "lesser of two evils." There is evil, and there is deeply intelligent, humane, savvy and flawed and excellent.

Note: This is nowhere near the “lesser of two evils.” There is evil, and there is deeply intelligent, humane, savvy and flawed and excellent. It is thus: On Tuesday, you are not making a genuine choice. Your vote is not between two sets of equally valid, but wildly differing visions for the future of the American experiment. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are not opposing ends of the same spectrum. This is no “lesser of two evils.” You are, very simply, choosing between a voice that champions life, fundamental humanity and intelligence, and a voice that hisses only violence and death. Put another way: The choice between a thoughtful conversation and a thug’s knife in your kidney is no choice at all.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2016/11/04/supporting-trump-is-not-your-opinion-its-just-death/

[flamin lib]

1. Men have been running things for ever.

Let's let someone without testosterone poisoning have a go at it.:

[niyad]

2. sp very true.

[Leontius]

4. Well that's not a bigoted response at all.

[kebob]

5. Hey!

I resemble that remark!

[stage left]

3. K&R

Morford puts clearly what I was trying to say in response to a facebook post yesterday. My youngest great niece(only six) came home yesterday and told her mother everybody in her class said Hillary was evil. Most of the respondents were appalled by this, but there is always one deplorable, isn't there. Her response was that if her child said Hillary was evil she'd pat herself on the back.