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Moby: Donald Trump Is 'Actual Sociopath'
"I'm tired of being a mealy-mouthed, NPR-listening lefty who has to respect other people's opinions," musician writesI'm tired of being diplomatic. I'm tired of being a mealy-mouthed, NPR-listening lefty who has to respect other people's opinions. If someone's wrong, I just want to have the temerity to say that they're wrong. I'm tired of listening to people who simply are dangerously wrong and having to pretend that we respect their opinions. Trump voters are wrong. Jill Stein voters are wrong. There's no ambiguity. I like the idea that the world in which we live is filled with lots of nuance and shades of gray, but when it comes to this, there's no nuance and there's no shades of gray. You're either on the side of progress or you're not, and I'm just tired of accommodating delusional, ignorant people.
If you have a 25-year-old who's a Jill Stein supporter but they were nine when Ralph Nader handed the presidency to George W. Bush, they don't know better. There are a lot of people who have lived in a relatively benign bubble, like young women who just assume that Roe v. Wade will always be the law of the land. I think that there's an innocence that is informing a lot of people's desire not to vote, or to vote for Jill Stein, but it's because they've had eight years of Obama. And I think that that innocence is making some of them naive and delusional.
I just hope that millennials understand the consequences — what's at stake in this election and how bad things could get with a Trump presidency and Republican control of the House and Senate. I'm just really hoping that millennials wake up and vote, even in a self-interested way. Like, just vote to try and protect themselves and protect their future.
Louis C.K. summed it up when he was talking about people who were on the fence about Hillary or are not going vote for her. He was basically saying, "Just grow up." This is not some nonsensical online Facebook poll. This is the future not just of our country, but of our planet. It's the future of our species.
More at link: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/moby-donald-trump-is-actual-sociopath-w448443