Question for white male Dems

[Mike 03]

121. So many things, but a few priorities:

I was deeply influenced by the politics of my parents, especially my mother, who has an almost visceral contempt for injustices of any kind and is especially anti-racist because of the time she grew up in. But I think it's also caring about people and seeing that the Democrats do and the Republicans govern as if the welfare of people is near the bottom of their list.

EDIT: Thinking about this a little more, I also am so grateful my parents could afford to send me to a really good university for a liberal arts education--that was a life-altering experience in terms of what I was exposed to. I think it gives you a bigger picture--one of the things you learn is about the tremendous suffering that has occurred on this planet. I think it helps a person develop compassion.

As per Trump specifically:

1. Foreign policy: treating our allies so badly, sacrificing Ukraine and potentially other European nations to Putin; his admiration for foreign dictators. His flirtation with pulling us out of NATO and his general contempt for NATO and the Post WW2 international legal order.
2. The Dobbs Decision. I can't be the only white male who was HORRIFIED by the Alito decision--everything about it. I don't see how any man who has loved women, has sisters, has a good relationship with his mother, has nieces, etc... can vote as if that abomination didn't happen.
3. Trump's obvious psychiatric unfitness, from the arrogance and impunity to the malignant narcissism to the lawlessness. He will turn our country into a hybrid Kleptocracy/Theocracy/Kakistocracy.
4. The botched handling of the COVID pandemic.
5. January 6 and his total lack of remorse, his vow to pardon the insurrectionists...

I could fill up twenty pages, but I'll stop here.