It boggles my mind that anyone would continue to support Trump after watching him last night. I really don't get it. It makes me feel cautious around others - specifically whites - and wonder how many people actually feel the same way he does. I've been told to my face that I'm an inferior human being because I wasn't born white. This happened in the workplace when I was young and unable to quit. How sad to think that I might end up living in a country where the president, and most powerful person in the world, feels the same way. It makes me feel very sad and a little scared for those who are young and unprotected in our society. Is this really what our country has become?
I'm a little scared of whites, too. And I'm white!
In all seriousness, I tend to be pessimistic about humanity in general, but this election is making me feel revulsion for my fellow citizens like nothing before. I mean, I KNOW there has always been a roiling cauldron of tribalist rage, anti-intellectualism, misogyny, and bigotry existing mostly out of sight but side-by-side with my daily experience. Now it's starting to dawn on me that this isn't a little hot-pocket volcano, but a Yellowstone size super-volcano. It's so incredibly depressing and yes, scary.
Just FYI, I watched the debates desperately looking for some smidgen of humility in HRC that would let me vote for her. But it just wasn't there. The reality of how all of you have let your contempt for the other candidate allow you to vilify the character and demean some very real and perfectly legitimate concerns of people who do not agree with you is as much to blame for her blowing the 10-20 point lead she started with to where the election is virtually tied.
I am not voting for Trump. I am voting for a 3rd party candidate. I have two degrees in engineering, do not regularly attend a church, have no particular issue with LGBT, I think there's probably only two genders but I don't care enough to argue about it, and I certainly don't think anyone who pays attention to what others are doing in a public restroom understands what a public restroom is for.
I absolutely despise Trump, he is an embarrassment of a human being. But I don't need to cast aspersions to wonder why people are voting for him. Look at who the dems ran against him. The right thing to do in this situation, on both sides, is to vote 3rd party. Not doing that is fine, that is your right. Don't be smug about it though. It isn't like you'll be electing a good person.
I watched the debate hoping Trump would challenge HRC where she is weakest so she could assuage my fears about the quality of her character. He didn't, and she pretty much put the nails in her own coffin.
So yes, HRC "won" if by "won" you mean reassured the far left that she is indeed a bought and paid for corporate candidate. Trump "lost" in the sense that yes, nobody who was going to vote for HRC changed their minds.
There probably are a ton of people who are just not going to show up on election day. No matter who wins, you won't be represented or protected by the next person in the white house. It's just picking which particular shitshow you want to see at this point.
When HRC attacked Trump on the litigation thing, his response was stupid. The right thing to do is respond by asking her why she would be smug and brag about getting a child rapist off with time served? I mean, everyone entitled to a vigorous defense right? But we don't gloat. You silently curse the incompetence of the prosecution, you vomit in your bathroom once you get home, you try to never think about it again. You don't use it as a selling point on how great a lawyer you are. Bad person.
I want to hear her response on that. I want her to stand up and defend that. She won't though, because the moderator won't ask that. He'll ask about the birther thing, because anybody gives a flying fuck about that. Trump is an asshole. We know. Way to waste time.
There's no way Trump can come out of any debate looking good. HRC should have totally crushed him, and at the same time taken advantage of the opportunity to explain herself, if possible. It's not possible though, because she isn't a good person. There's not a good defense of her actions.
She'll probably win, doesn't need my vote. If Trump wins, and that is totally possible and you should be as furious at HRC as I am for that even being possible, it will be because of a failure to distinguish the constituency from the candidate.
You all have invented a constituency that agrees with Trump, and can't understand how such a thing could exist.
It doesn't exist.
It's a mix of a bunch of different folks, rich, poor, middle class, white, non-white, people, each with their own things that are important, and likely all have one thing in common. Somewhere, on some level, there's something in their life that sucks and no democrat is trying to fix it. And instead of talking to them, the democrat is calling them stupid, racist, and mean.
Go fucking figure.
