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Originally Posted by peter12
I completely agree, and glad to see someone link to a NR piece, which has basically been a bastion of anti-Trump think-pieces almost since the beginning, and has kept on smashing charges into Trump's flank.
Yeah, the real issue here is that literally nothing matters. It is not White Knight vs Black Knight. It is deeply flawed candidate vs deeply dangerous candidate.
That's why the Clintonian partisan nonsense blows me away. This woman is not a hero! She is a pure political opportunist who is using the moral and political chaos of this election to take power. How can anyone not be blown away by this cynicism?
Look at her statements on gay marriage. By her current rhetoric, she would have been a deplorable homophobe as recently as 2013!
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...roblem/372717/ |
For like the 300th time: This election goes far, far beyond Clinton v. Trump. If you merely look at the Republican platform vs. the Democratic platform--the goals of each party with the coming Presidency--it tells you all you need to know.
Ignoring Trump's own unique set of awful, the GOP party platform is a disaster. They want to continue to ignore actual facts and actual science with regards to climate change. They support conversion therapy for gay kids (which has been proven repeatedly to be ineffective at best and intensely harmful at worst). They want to take away marriage equality. They want to expand on the disaster that is Citizens United by further relaxing campaign finance laws.
Pence is more problematic than Trump, in a lot of ways. Under his watch, Indiana managed a massive HIV outbreak, in large part because Pence was so adamantly anti-choice that his policies closed Planned Parenthoods and other clinics (even those that did not provide abortion services) that were the only HIV testing facilities for places like Scott County. GOP leadership is nearly as problematic as Trump, given that they're
already stating that, after insisting that "voters should have a say" in the SCOTUS judge to replace Scalia, by letting the next President choose his replacement, they now are claiming that they will literally just
refuse to fulfill their Constitutional duty and just leave the position open until a Republican is in the Oval Office.
I don't love Hillary, but she is less problematic than Trump, and the Democratic platform is dramatically less problematic than the GOP platform.