Why I could never vote for someone like Trump?

[kentuck]

It doesn't matter if they are a Democrat, Republican, or a Know-Nothing.

For me, it is very simple. Character or no character? If they have no character, if they lie, cheat, and steal, they will never get my vote.

It doesn't matter where they stand on any of the issues if they have no character.

Because, in my opinion, to vote for someone without character will never come to a good end.

I will never vote for anyone who exhibits such lack of morality and empathy, who speaks in violent and divisive language, who shows such little regard for his fellow man, as the person the majority of voters chose to lead this country.

For me personally, it is a very simple proposition.

[Walleye]

1. Millions of Americans want to be just like him. No morality no character. They think that will be fun.

[kentuck]

3. Yes, that is depressing...

... but if that is what it takes to "win", I will always be in the minority.

[Walleye]

4. Same here, there has been a real breakdown in parenting since Ronald Reagan I think

I blame all of this on poor upbringing. Parents abdicated their responsibilities when they wanted to blame everything on the schools, etc..

[rampartd]

5. they think that is necessary for their survival and income.

[bronxiteforever]

2. Exactly Kentuck. No empathy and you see

it in the circle of his appointments and his families.

I am reminded of Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens in Lincoln

Thaddeus Stevens : How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men ARE inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood! YOU are more reptile than man, George, so low and flat that the foot of man is incapable of crushing you!

[keithbvadu2]

6. Repubs had a favorite saying during Bill Clinton's time in office: "Character matters".

Obviously, they've gotten over that belief.

[voteragain]

8. agree

greed, me first, mine so on and so on.

it's not just at the top. it's from the bottom up to the top down.

me me me me.....

thankfully there are still some people with a heart that can say we.