What Should Bother Us All:
"I REMAIN MUCH MORE BOTHERED BY WHAT HILLARY HAS DONE
THAN BY WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID"
This was the message in a Facebook post one of my friends
shared".
I've been trying ever so hard to stay out of the political
discussion, but decided that I just can't.
Several of my friends are staunch Trump supporters. That's ok - they are entitled to their
opinion/decision/etc. I don't take it
upon myself to question their choice, they have their reasons that make sense
to them.
Many others are strong for Hillary (or were for Bernie) and
I don't question them either.
Personally, I don't think there's a perfect choice this
year, or maybe not even a good one, depending on your priorities. I think it's a matter of picking who you feel
will do the least damage, and that's a sad, sorry way to elect the leader of
our country.
Hillary has indeed done some things throughout her career
that are questionable choices, whether or not they are in the end proven to be
illegal (or to even have happened in some of the cases shouted about on social
media). I've never been a big fan, even
though I'd be thrilled to have a woman in the White House, the same as I was
thrilled to have a First Family of color.
BUT - what Donald Trump has said. He has made it clear he opposes rights for women,
minorities, and anyone else who doesn't agree with and cheer for him. A headline today says he wants to remove
press credentials for New York Times reporters, so they cannot cover his events. Why?
Because they don't agree with him, because 'the press treats him
unfairly' - because they report what he says and does that he later claims he
didn't say (or mean the way it was said) or do (or mean the way it was
done).
It doesn't bother you that he made fun of a physically
disabled reporter at one of his events?
It doesn't bother you that he has mocked and belittled
females?
It doesn't bother you that he won't reveal his tax returns?
It doesn't bother you that he speaks out, in crude, bullying,
mocking and belittling ways against anything and anyone that doesn't agree with
his own thoughts and agenda?
It doesn't bother you that he's encouraged, if not downright
incited violence against anything and anyone that doesn't agree with the same?
It doesn't bother you that his 'self-made' billions actually
started with millions given him by his father, and grew on defaulted loans and
questionable business dealings?
It doesn't bother you that there are criminal charges made
against him: rape of a minor, defrauding students at the 'Trump University', to
name just two (of 3,500 according to one story) that have made headlines.
It doesn't bother you that his reaction to anything and
anyone who doesn't agree with and cheer for him is anger, mockery, and bluster
- up to and including saying that if he doesn't win the election it is because
it is rigged - not that, oh, gee, enough people saw through your schoolyard
bully tactics to not want those in the White House?
It doesn't bother you that these very things are
questionable if not downright dangerous qualities for the leader of our country,
the man who can create peace and growth in all areas (financial, people's
rights, culture, the future) or create havoc and worse in all those areas, to
have?
It bothers me.
It bothers me that the qualities he does have: anger,
revenge, bullying, bluster and, yes, BS, will only drag our country down. And it really, really bothers me - it makes
me very afraid for the future - is that this man and the way he has shown
himself to be will either bring a full-scale war to our country or 'push the
red button' that annihilates the world.
This should bother everyone.
