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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet's make this absurdly simple. Because it is. Trump is a Bad Man. Bad Men should not be given power.
How many Americans really believe Trump is a good guy? Maybe twenty percent. That's the same percentage of Americans who believe the government uses Covid-19 vaccines to secretly microchip the public. Most Trump supporters know he's an asshole, but he's their asshole, damn it. But they wouldn't want Trump as their son's soccer coach, and they sure as hell wouldn't want him as their daughter's soccer coach. The man palled around with Jeffry Epstein for years. He boasted to Howard Stern that as the owner of the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant he could get away with walking into the dressing room to inspect beautiful women. A jury found him liable for sexual abuse, for God's sake. This is not a good guy..
Trump lies. He lies about everything. He even cheats at golf. And no, Mexico didn't pay for the wall. Trump isn't the only person who can save America from anything, no matter how big a braggart he may be. Most people who claim to be brilliant business men don't launch their careers with a 400 million dollar inheritance and go on to declare bankruptcy six times. He's still stiffing cities all across the country for unpaid bills he racks up at his rallies.
Trump has been found guilty in court of fraud. His charity foundation was legally shut down for failing to be a charity. His university was shuttered for selling a false bill of goods to students and leaving them with nothing more than debt. Trump is, officially, a Bad Man. From the 1970s until he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in over 4,000 legal cases in United States federal and state courts. How many of us know anyone who's been involved in more than one or two?
Trump is lewd. Trump is vulgar. Trump spews hate like an open faucet. He dodged the draft to avoid one war and mocks Americans who fought in others. And for this he thinks he should be Commander in Chief. Trump makes Secret Service agents who protect him stay in properties that he personally owns, and inflates the cost the government pays for their rooms. He hawks crypto currency, and sneakers, and watches, and bibles. Bibles with his own name on them.
Trump never loved a pet in his life. He has zero sense of humor. Trump demands absolute loyalty from absolutely everyone, from common citizens who dare not protest his policies less the military be turned against them, to his Vice President who Trump disdainfully offered to a lynch mob when Pence wouldn't disregard the Constitution for him. But Trump is loyal only to his greed.
Trump is a Bad Man. Bad men do bad things, that's what makes them bad. And bad men should never be given power over 350 million Americans.
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(3,741 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(23,015 posts)surfered
(3,741 posts)Without regard to the candidate, not unlike hamsters conditioned to hit the pedal for food.
TwilightZone
(28,834 posts)We often underestimate how many GOP voters would vote for anyone at the top of the ticket, regardless of circumstances, for the sole purposes of getting the agenda they want.
As long as they get what they want, the rest is irrelevant.
In the 2016 election and its aftermath, they got a Supreme Court that would vote their way for likely decades and infiltrated much of the rest of the judicial system. To them, that's worth voting for an abhorrent human being.
Sometimes, it's really simple and we just try to make it more complicated.
Tom Rinaldo
(23,015 posts)But the clear majority of Americans did not get the Supreme Court that they want, only the core right wing fanatics did.
FakeNoose
(36,005 posts)In addition ... we ALREADY KNOW what a TERRIBLE PRESIDENT he was and would be again!
We don't even have to wonder or guess. WE KNOW!
Tom Rinaldo
(23,015 posts)developed amnesia.
Dem4life1234
(1,996 posts)He has no self awareness, anyone else who lost would have never ran again and owned up to their mistakes.
I hate that I live in a country full of idiots who support this madness.
Tom Rinaldo
(23,015 posts)end up having crappy judgement. Ultimately i think a good education system is our first and most important line of defense. There's a reason why college educated whites often vote so differently than non college educated whites.
I used to partially blame Germans for "being German" when it came to Hitler's rise. Now I better understand how any population can succumb to fascism