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appalachiablue

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Tue Nov 12, 2024, 10:59 AM Nov 12

"I'M NOT FEELING CHARITABLE" [View all]

'I'm Not Feeling Charitable,' Daily Kos, Nov. 10, 2024. Photo: Angry

I’m angry. Really angry. As a lot of you are. There’s all kinds of analysis and speculation about why people voted for Trump, or against Harris, or how the Democrats may or may not have abandoned the working class, and the social impact of egg prices, but I just can’t get over the core fact of this election which is that half of the voters decided that fascism is an acceptable option. Fascism.

Whatever shortcomings the Democrats and the Left may have, the fact that fascism is an attractive option to half of America should be the focus of attention. The fact that it isn’t is appalling. There are a lot of people who have been arguing for the need to be understanding of Trump voters, to understand their economic distress, to build a strategy to convince them that we have a better plan and welcome them back when Trump’s schemes go awry. If we were dealing with any other Republican, or even Trump the first, I would agree, but that isn’t the reality we’re faced with. That doesn’t reflect what has happened in the past few months.

We had a normal person running a normal campaign with normal policies contrasted with a person dressing up as a Garbage Lego man, rambling incoherently about electrified sharks and cannibals, holding racist and misogynistic Nazi-rallies, simulating oral sex with a microphone and discussing prodigious golfer penises. And he’s a convicted felon and a rapist. But the people threw their hat in with the Orange God Clown anyway because eggs. Good for them.

The real problem for me, personally, is that people voted for an aspiring dictator who wishes me harm, wishes my family harm, wishes my friends harm, and will have the power and intention to upend millions of lives. They voted to take the first step toward death camps, based on the hope that it will stop at the first step. They voted for the promise of a national abortion ban, and the hope that it won’t materialize. They voted for the hope that we can have a fascist government without becoming monsters. That’s some aspiration. No matter how they try to rationalize it, no matter how they twist up their own moral logic, they voted to harm their fellow citizens based on the promise of economic prosperity. That’s something I can’t and won’t accept.

People have the right to vote as they see fit, but I will not accept a vote for fascism as moral. This is beyond a difference of opinion. It is a moral betrayal...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/10/2285136/-I-m-not-feeling-charitable

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"I'M NOT FEELING CHARITABLE" [View all] appalachiablue Nov 12 OP
Most are in for a surprise BigMin28 Nov 12 #1
Truth, ignorance and the dangerous state of America after decades of anti govt., corp greed. appalachiablue Nov 12 #2
The saddest part to me is that so many millions are willfully ignorant or just too fucking stupid to know what they've d Magoo48 Nov 12 #12
some are stupid Henry203 Nov 12 #17
This! Bluethroughu Nov 12 #16
even worse Skittles Nov 12 #22
What is 'moral' about voting for a serial sexual predator, rapist and convited felon? Biophilic Nov 12 #3
any "christian" who voted for Trump, THEIR FAITH IS BULLSHIT Skittles Nov 12 #23
Racism, Racism, Racism, Racism usonian Nov 12 #4
Bingo! OldBaldy1701E Nov 12 #10
We were in extreme denial to think that Frank D. Lincoln Nov 12 #19
I am so saddened by this. Racism and misogyny are taught. usonian Nov 12 #21
A lot of these "good, devout Christians" voted for tfg specifically because they know he will hurt people alwaysinasnit Nov 12 #5
which is proof their "faith" is absolute fucking bullshit Skittles Nov 12 #24
And yet they have convinced themselves of their righteousness and moral superiority. alwaysinasnit Nov 12 #27
they certainly do think they are better Skittles Nov 12 #28
+1000 alwaysinasnit Nov 12 #29
Truth be known...we are the enablers in a codependent relationship. We need to walk away and let them falter PortTack Nov 12 #6
I really did Macrophylla Nov 12 #26
Selfishness and we are supposed to be alright with that. Blue Full Moon Nov 12 #7
my doc told me that today Skittles Nov 12 #25
As the Bulwarks Mona Charen wrote bronxiteforever Nov 12 #8
Agreed. Making it a horse race covered up the facts of the corruption mdbl Nov 12 #9
Please, relax and calm down.....it it help knowing this... Dan Nov 12 #11
"Oh, he's just saying that" and "Trump is just being Trump" Mountain Mule Nov 12 #13
Yeah, even if Putin, Musk and starlink Farmer-Rick Nov 12 #14
"They" don't know what "Fascism" is. Justice matters. Nov 12 #15
Agree, me too. Why are we mocked as the "smartypants party" instead of the "we care" party which now txwhitedove Nov 12 #18
We now have our own Slobodan Milosevic; it won't be long before the rape camps and "pig slaughter pens" start to appear. NBachers Nov 12 #20
co-signed... Blue_Tires Nov 13 #30
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