In the US, we are lucky compared to so many other parts of the world. We are given the right to have a say in the politicians that represent us at the local, state, and federal levels. The 2016 Presidential Campaign, started over a year before the election date. We are 2 days away from “Super Tuesday,” when over 10 states have primary elections. I have just over 2 weeks until my states primary election.
Things are getting hot, but I go back to something I was told last summer. I was told by someone that I should check out Donald Trump and consider voting for him because he made sense. This happened a couple weeks after he had announced that he was going to run. This person has always come across as a moderate republican and has known for a long time that there is not much more room for me to go to the left.
Last summer, none of us could have imaged where the Trump campaign would go. But now we are at a scary point. The republican primary candidate list is long and while it has shortened in recent weeks it still has a lot of players. Thankfully Trump has not gotten 50% of the vote in any state, but the amount of support that he has gotten is down right scary.
For generations people have fought for equality in this country. Minorities are constantly fighting to not be discriminated against and now we have a candidate for the highest office in our country, saying that we should close our borders to Muslims, that Mexican’s are rapists. And we have people supporting his racist rhetoric.
While we have candidates like Bernie and Hilary who want to help protect minorities, we can’t ignore the downright ugliness coming from Trump. His rhetoric is going back to a time when only white upper class men had a say in politics. And what gets me the most is women supporting him. Women are supporting someone who said that if his daughter wasn’t his daughter he would want to be with her sexually.
While I have a number of republican friends, many of them can tell me why they support the candidate that they support in the primaries. However, I have yet to hear from a Trump supporter give a political reason why they support him. They say he makes sense, that they like that he says whatever he wants to say, and a long list of other non political things. Yet when asked why he makes sense, they have no substance behind that statement. When asked what he says that they like, they can give no specific answers.
Earlier this week I ready this blog post, http://honestlythinking.org/if-you-are-a-trump-supporter-these-are-the-9-things-i-assume-about-you/, and it is one of the few republican blog posts that I agree with. As I read through it, I had a sign of relief realizing that there were republicans who were just as scared as I am of what happens if Trump is elected. I realized that we all need to come together to prevent Trump from being elected. President Obama and his policies and cabinet have worked hard on repairing our image with the rest of the word. When he took office, we did not have a positive standing in the world, many world leaders were still upset about the invasion of Iraq.
Organizations like ISIS get their fuel from the hatred projected on them. From hate filled rhetoric about closing borders to all Muslims, closing Mosques, and having Muslims carry identification. This sounds all to familiar of what the German history books talk about for the 1930s. Hitler, fed on the Germans desire to have someone to blame for losing WW I. Trump is feeding on the desire of some American’s to still get retribution for 9/11 even though we caught and killed Bin Ladin and others responsible for the attacks.
I know that come November, whoever is the Democratic candidate will have my vote. It might not be who I vote for next month, but I have to make my vote count. We all have to make our votes count. I heard many democrats saying that they won’t vote for Hillary or Bernie come November, if the person they supported in the primaries does not get the nomination in August. We can’t think like that. We have to support a candidate. We cannot afford a possibility of having Trump elected. I and many others are terrified are what could happen if Trump is elected.
People who are still trying to protect the ideal Christian based marriage of a women or man are so fast to look away and ignore Trumps multiple marriages and affairs. The Ten Commandants states “tho shall not commit adultery.”
People are willing to support someone that the only talks about policy when it comes to discrimination of everyone that isn’t a white male. Can we afford to go back this far in history?
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